[solved] Can't get xdg-open to work with .love files

[clofresh]

Hi, I'm on arch linux running awesomewm without a desktop environment and have installed the love package, but I can't seem to get xdg-open to open .love files. This is what I tried:

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$ pacman -Q love
love 0.9.2-1
$ cat /usr/share/mime/packages/love.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
        <mime-type type="application/x-love-game">
                <comment>LÖVE game</comment>
        <glob pattern="*.love"/>
        </mime-type>
</mime-info>
$ sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
$ cat /usr/share/applications/love.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=LÖVE
Comment=The unquestionably awesome 2D game engine
MimeType=application/x-love-game;
Exec=/usr/bin/love %f
Type=Application
Categories=Development;Game;
Terminal=false
Icon=love
NoDisplay=true
$ xdg-mime default love.desktop application/x-love-game
$ xdg-open Eyebrella.love 
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'Eyebrella.love'

Any suggestions?

[bartbes]

What does the following command say?

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xdg-mime query Eyebrella.love

[clofresh]

Hmm interesting, it sees it as a zip. Wonder how it's getting that

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$ xdg-mime query filetype Eyebrella.love 
application/zip

[s-ol]

Hmm interesting, it sees it as a zip. Wonder how it's getting that

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$ xdg-mime query filetype Eyebrella.love 
application/zip

well, it is a zip, but the pattern matching should/could match it to löve before the file-inspection works.

[bartbes]

Interesting, it seems if xdg-mime can't detect a DE, it falls back to 'file', which uses its own filetype database. The gnome-open command does work for me (I run awesome on arch too).

You can verify this happens by running:

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bash -x xdg-mime query filetype Eyebrella.love

[clofresh]

Ah didn't know it was just a bash script. This makes it work:

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alias xdg-open='DE=gnome xdg-open'
xdg-open Eyebrella.love 

[Rucikir]

Hi !
This is a bit necroposting, but I had the exact same issue.

Another solution is to install a xdg-open alternative like perl-file-mimeinfo.

Most importantly, xdg-utils apps will actually call mimetype instead of file for MIME type detection, if it does not detect your desktop environment. This is important because file does not follow the XDG standard.

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