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I use the latest Archlinux and stumpwm as my window manager with some Gnome goodies on the side (gnome-power-manager, gnome-settings-daemon and networkmanager applet). I tried to make Conkeror my default browser. I tried gconftool-2 and changed the /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http(s) to conkeror %s with no luck.

From what I understand Gconf is migrating to GSettings in Gnome 3 but I am completely lost as to how to configure it. I logged in to a gnome-shell session and tried to change the preferred applications but the only available choices are FireFox and Epiphany. I've being googling for the past 2 hours without luck and resorted to the hardcore solution of symlinking /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/conkeror.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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I'm not sure if this is the proper way to do it, but it worked for me:

Make sure /usr/share/applications/conkeror.desktop contains something like the following:

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

then run

$ sudo update-desktop-database

and finally go to System Settings -> System Info -> Default Applications. Check the available applications for "Web"--Conkeror should be listed.

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  • Thank you, I'll try your solution as soon as I decide to install gnome on my system again. Very disappointed with the "one size fits all" approach of gnome 3. Very happy with arch and stumpwm. Commented Jul 8, 2011 at 8:38
  • Thanks!! This was driving me crazy. (Seems like it was much easier on earlier versions of Ubuntu....) Commented Jan 23, 2013 at 21:05

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