Tdesktop: Linux - links are not opened with the default broswer

[cippaciong]

Hello I'm running tdesktop 0.6.8 on my Linux machine and I have a problem with the browser. While all applications (graphical o cli) open links with Firefox which is my default browser, tdesktop open them with Midori, another browser I installed which is not the default one.
A friend of mine have the same problem but in his case links are opened with dwb (I don't think Midori is installed on his system).

[nchowning]

I am experiencing the same issue. I am running i3 w/ no desktop environment. My default browser is firefox set via the BROWSER environment variable:

% echo $BROWSER
firefox

On one of my computers, Telegram links will open in qutebrowser and on another they open in chromium.

[cippaciong]

@nchowning In the end I found out how to solve this problem, you just have to set your xdg-open default browser as explained here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xdg-open#Set_the_default_browser

[nchowning]

That fixed it for me. Thank so much cippacciong!

[PandorasFox]

I've been having this problem recently. I've got my defaults set but once firefox is installed, links open in firefox by default (even though xdg-open opens the link in chromium properly)

[jeronimozc]

Hey! I'm having the same issue as @PandorasFox on Ubuntu 16.04 with tdesktop 1.2.14. Firefox just goes ahead and opens links on telegram, even if Chromium is my default browser.

[PandorasFox]

It ended up being a (weird) issue with some defaults I had set, buried, somewhere. I think the env var $BROWSER also mattered, maybe? It's been a while, but I fixed my setups and they behave properly now.

[jakub-olczyk]

Since I had the same problem and looking for a solution I was pointed here, yet the above-mentioned solutions didn't work for my setup. I'd like to leave mine fix for others in similar situation.

(For context, gio open and xdg-open had different behaviour for some reason on i3wm + CentOS 7.8 I use).

I have solved the problem for me by following the guide here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/386321/how-to-set-the-default-web-browser-used-to-open-urls-under-i3/572176#572176

And here's the gist of it for posteriority if the link ends up dead for some reason (Bash specific solution):

cat > /usr/share/applications/defaults.list <<__END__
text/html=firefox.desktop;
text/xml=firefox.desktop;
application/xhtml_xml=firefox.desktop;
image/webp=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop;
__END__

Just remember to use one of the desktop files located here /usr/share/applications/ .
I hope that leaving this solution here may be useful for somebody (and I hope never to rediscover it in the future :crossed_fingers: )

[13werwolf13]

end of 2020 and we are still there

[enomado]

Looks like telegram uses new way to determine default browser.

$ xdg-mime default browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
$ xdg-mime default browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/https   

works for me

[filmmakerto]

i'm having the same problem with pdf files, they open in gimp even though i have xreader set as my default pdf application in ~/.config/mimeapps.list as well as /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. links work fine though, they open up in the browser i have set as default. anyone else have the same problem?