[SOLVED] How to set “apulse firefox” as default browser?

[Member Grisonix]

I have non-ESR firefox and would like to launch it from the taskbar icon as “apulse firefox”. And if I open a link in another program I always want it to call “apulse firefox”.

What I tried that didn’t work was, making /usr/share/applications/firefox-apulse.desktop with the following contents.

#!/bin/bash
apulse /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

In control center, I then set the default application to be /usr/share/applications/firefox-apulse.desktop. This did not work. I guess there is something wrong with the script?

Anyway, how do I set it so “apulse firefox” is the default browser option?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Grisonix.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Grisonix.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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.desktop files are different from scripts.
Best bet would be to copy the firefox.desktop file to firefox-apulse.desktop and change the Exec= line to apulse firefox.
There is also add/remove desktop and menu manager to do this graphically.

cat /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop |sed "s/Exec=.*/Exec=apulse firefox %u/ig" > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop && sudo desktop-menu --write-out-global

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[Member Grisonix]

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Thanks a lot!

That fixed it.

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