On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:23 AM Jeff wrote: > Unfortunately, my search engine foo is failing me and I can't find the > right incantation to get gsettings to tell me the default email client.
I diffed `dconf dump /` and `gsettings list-recursively` before and after changing my default email client and came up with no differences, so I don't think it is stored in gsettings. Then I did an strace of gnome-control-centre and noticed it modified this file, changing the mailto handler in the [Default Applications] section: ~/.config/mimeapps.list Personally I would suggest you drop the custom code that you have and just use xdg-email, it appears to know how to do things on various desktops and to query the mimeapps file on gnome3 and to use gconftool on gnome2. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
