No idea if this is linked to the other xdg-open issues, but:
At work we use software to telework and teach from home when necessary. This tool uses jitsi for the video part.
If I use jitsi directly, everything is OK.
If I click the "Call" button that, I imagine, starts jitsi with the correct "address", I get a window saying:
Open xdg-open?
https://kinaps1.gyb.ch wants to open this application
[] Always allow kinaps1.gyb.ch to open links of this type in the associated app
Clicking the "Open xdsg-open" button simply starts another instance of the browser.
This happens whatever browser I use - although xdg-open always starts my default browser.
Where - or what - should I look to understan what xdg-open is trying to do?
Thierry
Hello Thierry,
xdg-open is a program which starts the default application for a file format or a protocol. It is usually run by most web-browsers when they do not know how to handle a protocol, independently of whether you have the needed application or not.
Does the "Call" button point to a link? What protocol does that link use? Maybe you need a special client application for Jitsi?
For me with MS-Teams, it shows the same prompt (open with xdg-open?), in which I click "Cancel" and then proceed to click "Join with this browser", which lets me join through the web-browser.
-- Mavridis Philippe
On 05/24/2021 02:09 PM, Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
No idea if this is linked to the other xdg-open issues, but:
At work we use software to telework and teach from home when necessary. This tool uses jitsi for the video part.
If I use jitsi directly, everything is OK.
If I click the "Call" button that, I imagine, starts jitsi with the correct "address", I get a window saying:
Open xdg-open?
https://kinaps1.gyb.ch wants to open this application
[] Always allow kinaps1.gyb.ch to open links of this type in the associated app
Clicking the "Open xdsg-open" button simply starts another instance of the browser.
This happens whatever browser I use - although xdg-open always starts my default browser.
Where - or what - should I look to understan what xdg-open is trying to do?
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On Monday 24 May 2021 13.57:11 Mavridis Philippe wrote:
Hello Thierry,
xdg-open is a program which starts the default application for a file format or a protocol. It is usually run by most web-browsers when they do not know how to handle a protocol, independently of whether you have the needed application or not.
Does the "Call" button point to a link? What protocol does that link use? Maybe you need a special client application for Jitsi?
I never really saw this link. It might be:
https://8x8.vc/vpaas-magic-cookie-b140a0b5ec384b5db9402c0551fc1010/<room_address>
as this is the link I get to share.
And no, I dont need a special client. This is what I have:
Notebook: - Click on the "Call" button - xdg-open dialog - click on Open xdg-open -> reopens browser - click on Cancel -> nothing happens
Desktop: - Click on the "Call" button -> a side window opens to let me connect
Both computers run the same Debian 10, same software installed. I'm pretty sure that it *did* work on th notebook at the start. And as the exact same behaviour happens whatever the browser I use, I think "something" has been written "somewhere" that causes xdg-open to do the wrong thing, but I don't know where to look.
Unfortunately the desktop has neither camera nor microphone, so it's of litle use for on-line conferences...
For me with MS-Teams, it shows the same prompt (open with xdg-open?), in which I click "Cancel" and then proceed to click "Join with this browser", which lets me join through the web-browser.
Nope, not here. http://meet.jit.si let's me connect if I have the right room address, which I can get using the desktop.
So http://meet.jit.si/<room_address> lets me connect but then I am no more in the shared environment (where the video is only a side window).
Mavridis Philippe
Thierry
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