On 2018-06-11, Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > thank you for your proposed alpine.desktop file. > I checked that > xdg-mime query default 'x-scheme-handler/mailto' > actually gives > alpine.desktop > > but nevertheless no alpine.desktop works: I always get a chromium page > instead > of alpine.
I did discover yet another config file in the bewildering web of these fscking things. ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps which contains, in my case [Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/mailto=alpine.desktop Maybe I appended that; maybe it's essential to get this to work, or maybe not. I don't remember. Out.