Slimjet-cannot get it set as my default browser–Solved

[Member greyowl]

I am running antiX 17, 32 bit.
I recently started using Slimjet v.27.0.4.0
I have Slimjet set as my default brower, but it does not work. My old browser, Firefox, remains the default browser.
Each time I start Slimjet, it ask if I want to set it as default so I click the box to set it. But, it doesn’t actually get set.
Any ideas on how to get this set correctly?

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Have you tried the antiX standard method to set Preferred Applications?

anticapitalista wrote:

Control Centre – Desktop – Preferred Applications – Click upward arrow to left of Web Browser – Select Chromium.desktop file – Open – OK
(You might need to log out/login for the change to show)

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Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I set Preferred Applications to SlimJet.

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greyowl wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I set Preferred Applications to SlimJet.

And is it working now? Slimjet is now set as your default?

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No, it is not working as the default browser.
If I use an application that uses the default browser, it opens Firefox.
The problem seems to be with Slimjet. Slimjet keeps asking to be the default browser, even though I have clicked the button within Slimjet to set it as the default.
I am wondering if there is a way to config Slimjet another way like you can with Firefox (using about:config).

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Hmm, strange. It works for me with SeaMonkey. Did you verify the .desktop file is set to launching slimjet correctly? There may be a .slimjet hidden file under your user?

How about going into Firefox settings and specifically turn off as “default” browser?

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If not already done please give this a go, it is the system master switch setting.

sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser

that is minus minus before config. Forum always mangles that.

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ModdIt wrote:

If not already done please give this a go, it is the system master switch setting.

sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser

that is minus minus before config. Forum always mangles that.

I set Slimjet as default using this method–see below:

user@antix1:~
$ sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser
There are 8 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

Selection Path Priority Status
————————————————————
0 /usr/bin/flashpeak-slimjet 200 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/antix-viewer 20 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/dillo 50 manual mode
4 /usr/bin/firefox 100 manual mode
* 5 /usr/bin/flashpeak-slimjet 200 manual mode
6 /usr/bin/mx-viewer 20 manual mode
7 /usr/bin/palemoon 71 manual mode
8 /usr/bin/xlinks2 69 manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

With this setting, when I use Password Safe to go to a url, it opens in Firefox even if Firefox is not set as the default browser.
If I set the default as palemoon or firefox, then everything works correctly with them as default.

The problem only happens with Slimjet.
Whenever I start Slimjet, I get a pop up that says “Slimjet is not your default browser” Then, click the button that says “set as default”–But, it actually does not get set as default.

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Maybe passwordsafe is to blame. Can you change default browser in the program?
Also, check Control Centre > System > Alternatives Configurator (change gnome-www-browser, www-browser, x-www-browser or any other if possible).

It would be good to know how slimjet calls the browser. It seems that if the url has a [alt] tag, it will launch using the Alternate browser in settings. Maybe you can work with this meanwhile.

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greyowl wrote:

The problem only happens with Slimjet.
Whenever I start Slimjet, I get a pop up that says “Slimjet is not your default browser” Then, click the button that says “set as default”–But, it actually does not get set as default.

Based on:

https://www.slimjet.com/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1537
By chance, noticed that Slimjet (maybe Chromium too?) uses the ‘xdg-settings’ command to determine if Slimjet is the default browser.

It probably does:
xdg-settings get default-web-browser
Check if slimjet is your default web-browser. If it isn’t, and you know the name of the slimjet .desktop file (check /usr/share/applications/ folder), you can set it yourself. I imagine it should be slimjet.desktop. If so, set it using
xdg-settings set default-web-browser slimjet.desktop

I always thought setting the browser using antiX Preferred Applications sets said browser to be used with the xdg-open command for links. I even tested this on antiX core, so maybe this has nothing to do with xdg-settings and more to do with how passwordsafe works.

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Here is what I got–does this mean that slimjet is set as default? Or, should I proceed with the second command?

user@antix1:~
$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
/usr/bin/xdg-mime: 913: local: Moon-ZX359Y.desktop: bad variable name
slimjet.desktop
user@antix1:~
$

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Xecure wrote:

Maybe passwordsafe is to blame. Can you change default browser in the program?
Also, check Control Centre > System > Alternatives Configurator (change gnome-www-browser, www-browser, x-www-browser or any other if possible).

It would be good to know how slimjet calls the browser. It seems that if the url has a [alt] tag, it will launch using the Alternate browser in settings. Maybe you can work with this meanwhile.

Password Safe works as expected when FF and Palemoon are set as default browser so I concluded that it is a problem with Slimjet since I cannot get it set as the default browser in the system as a whole.
I did try the Alternate Browser and [alt] tag approach with Password Safe, and it works as expected so that could be an alternative for Password Safe.
However, I would like to fix Slimjet which cannot be set as the default browser in spite of setting it as default by several methods.

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greyowl wrote:

Here is what I got–does this mean that slimjet is set as default?

Correct. It is set as the default browser.
If in terminal you do:
xdg-open https://www.google.com
does slimjet open google.com? If it does, slimjet is not the problem.

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Here is what I got with the second command:

user@antix1:~
$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser slimjet.desktop
/usr/bin/xdg-mime: 913: local: Moon-ZX359Y.desktop: bad variable name
/usr/bin/xdg-mime: 913: local: Moon-ZX359Y.desktop: bad variable name
xdg-mime: application argument missing
Try ‘xdg-mime –help’ for more information.
user@antix1:~
$

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Xecure wrote:

greyowl wrote:

Here is what I got–does this mean that slimjet is set as default?

Correct. It is set as the default browser.
If in terminal you do:
xdg-open https://www.google.com
does slimjet open google.com? If it does, slimjet is not the problem.

It opened google in Firefox.

Here is the terminal response:

user@antix1:~
$ xdg-open https://www.google.com
/usr/bin/xdg-mime: 913: local: Moon-ZX359Y.desktop: bad variable name
Please launch slimjet via the wrapper script: flashpeak-slimjet

###!!! [Child][MessageChannel] Error: (msgtype=0x3900C2,name=PContent::Msg_ScriptErrorWithStack) Channel closing: too late to send/recv, messages will be lost

###!!! [Child][MessageChannel] Error: (msgtype=0x3900C2,name=PContent::Msg_ScriptErrorWithStack) Channel closing: too late to send/recv, messages will be lost

user@antix1:~

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