Description of the issue:
When clicking on a link, like within the web based version of slack. The correct action should be that it opens up the slack workspace in my local client. I receive an error pointing to unable to xdg-open
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
RHEL 7.7, Slack desktop client installed
Open slack in the brave browser
Click on a message link
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Expected result:
Should open my slack desktop client
That’s not an error, you’re supposed to click Open xdg-open, which would open the associated client. On Linux, you assign an app to a protocol. The slack protocol should be associated to your slack client.
Right, it does not actually open the client - it just goes out into open space.
Works fine in firefox, that what makes me think its something with a brave setup/option.
That is OS level default applications. You should be able to see an entry for slack in brave://settings/handlers which may not be set. Try resetting the handlers and see if it fixes. Also just noticed you are on a really old version of Brave. Current stable release is 1.5.115 but you are on 1.1.23. I’d suggest you update to the latest version and give it a try
I do think this is it You should be able to see an entry for slack in brave://settings/handlers which may not be set. - I do not have any entries. But I also installed Brave via snap and I there are no update options there (my desktop is RHEL 7.7) - should I take a different approach to installing brave to pick up the updates? Any guidance on how to address the handlers?
ok - once I get dnf installed and running (lot harder then you would think sadly), I will export my bookmarks, reinstall brave, and install with dnf not snap.