Comments on: Adobe Air – Open URLs in default browser

By: McGillicudy

McGillicudy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:20:47 +0000

>> and now I can use TweetDeck.

Until I reboot. GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is set, but TweetDork still uses Firefox.

Might as well switch to something more stable, like Twitux.

By: McGillicudy

McGillicudy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:13:21 +0000

Dan is right; GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID may be depreciated, but it is the test that Adobe Air uses to see if Gnome is the active desktop (/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Resources/xdg-utils/xdg-open). So, until Adobe gets it’s act together, I’ve made the change in .bashrc, and now I can use TweetDeck.

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By: Tor Håkon Haugen

Tor Håkon Haugen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:26:42 +0000

Dan Martin:
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is deprecated.

By: Dan Martin

Dan Martin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:10:22 +0000

Easiest way of all. Edit .bashrc in your home directory and add “export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default” to it. Exit Gnome, and come back. After that, all Air apps will use your default launcher.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:10:42 +0000

I found an esier way to do this, I think, one that works for me anyway. NOTE that you need to do this with root privs (sudo).

When I looked into the /opt directory, I saw that there were three folders there – one for Adobe AIR, one for TweetDeck, and one for firefox. (The firefox directory was not a symlink. This is marginally troubling and might explain why upgrading your system to Ffox3.5 isn’t recognized by TweetDeck, and it still loads Ffox3.)

TweetDeck seems to be hardwired to load /opt/firefox/firefox when opening a URL. But it doesn’t actually seem to care if it’s really Firefox it loads or not.

Here’s the shortened version of what I did. About half of it was guesswork and trial-and-error, but it worked.

1. In /opt, rename the firefox directory to something like ffox.
2. Create a new directory in /opt called firefox.
3. Copy the script or symlink to the browser of your choice into the firefox folder you just created.
4. Rename that script or symlink firefox.

After that, TweetDeck should use the browser you want.

By: Andrea Olivato

Andrea Olivato — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:16:25 +0000

Thanks for linking and glad the solution helped you.

Have a great day

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