Bug#576829: xdg-settings: cannot set default-web-browser

[Witold Baryluk]

Package: xdg-utils
Followup-For: Bug #576829

FYI. Works for me:

user at debian:/tmp$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox-esr.desktop
user at debian:/tmp$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop
user at debian:/tmp$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
chromium.desktop
user at debian:/tmp$ 


-- Package-specific info:
Desktop environment: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=MATE

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

xdg-utils depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends:
ii  libfile-mimeinfo-perl  0.29-1
ii  libnet-dbus-perl       1.2.0-1
ii  libx11-protocol-perl   0.56-7
ii  x11-utils              7.7+4
ii  x11-xserver-utils      7.7+8

xdg-utils suggests no packages.

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