Re: Opening of links

[Max Nikulin]

On 24/09/2022 18:49, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 23/09/2022 21:49, Guillaume MULLER wrote:
> > - My OS settings are configured so that PDFs are opened in Evince. I 
> > configured this with "xfce4-settings-manager > Default Applications" 
> > (which runs "xfce4-mime-settings" under the hood) and it can be 
> > verified with "xdg-open test.pdf" or by opening Thunar and clicking on 
> > "test.pdf".
>
> I would name it desktop environment configuration since OS may have more 
> settings and it is your issue.
>
> These settings likely alters ~/.config/mimeapps.list
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html 
>
> "Association between MIME types and applications"
>
> Unfortunately Emacs does not support this part of XDG specs, so there 
> are no ready to use functions to work with .desktop files and MIME 
> associations. You may add entries calling xdg-open for file types you 
> wish to the `org-file-apps' custom variable.

Likely the following entry in `org-file-apps' to override maicap by 
xdg-open may allow to achieve what you expect:

    (system . (lambda (file _link) (browse-url-xdg-open file))))

However links with page numbers (supported for "docview:" type out of 
the box) will not work with such generic handler.