SUMMARY I'm not sure if this is a bug but it's certainly confusing. When I click on links in Okular (and only Okular, not any other PDF reader), it tries to open the Signal desktop client instead of opening the link in my default Web application (Firefox). I can't find any setting in Okular to fix this. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click on a link in Okular with Signal Desktop installed. OBSERVED RESULT Clicking link opens Signal desktop client. EXPECTED RESULT Link opens in default Web application (in my case, Firefox). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Signal Desktop v1.29.0 Firefox 71.0 (64-bit)
Hi, Okular should follow system-wide application associations. Can you check what is written in your ~/.config/mimeapps.list for x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/https Thanks in advance for your answer.
Hi Yuri, Here are all the x-scheme-handler* lines from my ~/.config/mimeapps.list: ~/.config/mimeapps.list x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop x-scheme-handler/about=google-chrome.desktop x-scheme-handler/unknown=google-chrome.desktop x-scheme-handler/sgnl=signal-desktop.desktop I don't have Chrome installed so I'm not sure what's up there. I tried changing all the "google-chrome.desktop" entries to "firefox.desktop" but it made no difference. Apart from these entries, there is also text/html=signal-desktop.desktop which is the only other instance of "signal-desktop.desktop" in the file. I tried changing that to "firefox.desktop"; still no change in the behaviour. Thanks! Will
Ok. Thanks. Can you try this command? xdg-mime default firefox.desktop text/html Inspired by this bug report: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3602
Yes, that worked (after restarting computer)! Thanks a lot!