Solving xdg-open special URI opening problems

asked Mar 2 '13

mikevmk
11 ●2 ●2 ●4

updated Mar 2 '13

Hi

Is there any clear (not dirty-hack style) way to make xdg-open open URIs like 'magnet:...' and so on? I've created workaround (see the patch), but maybe there is better way?

Thank you

--- /usr/bin/xdg-open.orig  2013-03-02 16:02:36.184184989 +0400
+++ /usr/bin/xdg-open   2013-03-02 16:51:53.878851407 +0400
@@ -384,7 +384,11 @@

 open_generic_xdg_mime()
 {
-    filetype=`xdg-mime query filetype "$1" | sed "s/;.*//"`
+    if [ -z $not_file ]; then
+        filetype=`xdg-mime query filetype "$1" | sed "s/;.*//"`
+    else
+        filetype=x-scheme-handler/`echo "$1" | cut -d: -f 1`
+    fi
     default=`xdg-mime query default "$filetype"`
     if [ -n "$default" ] ; then
         xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
@@ -444,6 +448,9 @@
                 exit_success
             fi
         fi
+        elif (echo "$1" | egrep -q '^[a-zA-Z+\.\-]+:'); then
+            not_file=1
+            open_generic_xdg_mime "$1"
     fi

     OLDIFS="$IFS"

UPDATE: Script for adding support for all your current x-scheme-handler types http:// pastebin.com/qkVbkrqq . Still looking for better solution