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What does it mean that I don't have the desktop file?



Then you don't have a program that can handle the URL scheme, at least according to desktop-entry-spec[0], which is the source of data that xdg-utils consults.

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entr...

On my (Debian) system, firefox and chromium ship their .desktop files.


nod and the .desktop file is just an INI-style file that one can hand create for anything at all, the launched app just needs to accept the URL as a parameter input as if typed on the CLI for this scheme.




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