Problem on Linux

balenaEtcher
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I just installed Balena Etcher 1.5.100 on Linux Mint 20.1 x86_64
It worked perfectly flashing a SD card, but now whenever I click an internet shortcut on my desktop, Balena starts up and wants to use it.

In linux this is a .desktop file.

In my settings the default app for this type of file is Firefox, but still Balena wants to use it.

How can I change this?

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Hi - this seems to be an issue with xdg settings - and not etcher or Electron - and we’ve had someone report this before. Can you check the workaround mentioned on this issue - Missing parameter in set_url_scheme_handler_gnome3? (#180) · Issues · xdg / xdg-utils · GitLab . Please let us know if this works for you

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That was exactly my issue and that trick solved it.
I did this: " sudo vi $(which xdg-settings) "
And then afterwards this: " xdg-mime default firefox.desktop text/html "
In my xdg-settings file it was line 1194. “set_browser_mime “$2” || return”

Thank you for the advice and solution, much appreciated. :wink: :+1:

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Glad you got it to work Joe! Thanks for sharing the steps that you followed, that certainly will be useful for others!

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Just an additional fix for those looking for them.

Got this bug recently on Ubuntu 22.04 using etcher.

Couldn’t find the problem using xdg-mime or xdg-settings (both had correct handler listed). Put @trustin script into my PATH as well, but still got the issue. (especially annoying as I am trying to learn Rust and everytime I do cargo doc it opens etcher which tells me the file is not a valid iso.)

This, however, fixed the issue:

  1. opened this file: ~/.config/mimeapps.list in a text editor.
  2. did a search for “etcher” and found an instance
  3. moved the offending line from the “Default Applications” section to the “Removed Associations” section
  4. added a semi-colon to the end of the line I just moved.

Voila! It worked.

Hope this helps someone out there!

pam