#Trying to set Zen Browser as the default browser.

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zinc shadow
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Let me preface this by saying I am very new to Linux, so I apologize if this post seems banal.
I wanted to do it the "clean" way by going into Setup>Defaults in the menu, thus opening bindings.conf. I understand I'm supposed to change $browser to something other than chromium, but I cannot for the life of me find the "proper" name of Zen Browser, so whenever I save the file, the browser shortcut just doesn't open anything. If anyone knows how to find the proper/terminal name of Zen (or maybe even generally, any installed app), I would greatly appreciate the info.

lucid raven
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same issue

light heath
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go into zen browser settings then set it as defualt

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same as you would do on firefox

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i think

radiant heron
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find the .desktop file for it. I'm not at my linux system and this is also my first linux adventures but they should live in an /applications dir and you'll see what its named. Also, if you search "default" under Omarchy-help you'll find a couple threads of people changing the default browser. There should be an xdg-settings command like xdg-settings set default...

This command might help but it is AI generated just fyi

find /usr/share /home/$USER/.local/share -type f -name "*.desktop"

a suggestion before running would be to do man find which will open the manual for find

 The find utility recursively descends the directory tree for each path listed, evaluating an expression (composed of the “primaries” and “operands” listed below) in terms of each file in the tree.

-type t
             True if the file is of the specified type.  Possible file types are as follows:

             b       block special
             c       character special
             d       directory
             f       regular file
             l       symbolic link
             p       FIFO
             s       socket

name is self explanatory

So that find command is searching in those two directories for a regular file that contains any characters but ends in .desktop 🙂
here are some potentially helpful threads as well
https://discord.com/channels/1390012484194275541/1424978199372107837
https://discord.com/channels/1390012484194275541/1422939257294684231
https://discord.com/channels/1390012484194275541/1421391190707798056

hope this helps

twin night
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Depends, did you downliad it through flatpak, AUR, or pacman repos? Each one has it's own approach. You need to figure that out, after that it's as easy as asking an AI assistant to get the app id for you (I ran into the same issue before, AI assistants are pretty reliable for this kind of stuff)

zinc shadow
zinc shadow
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I got it!

image.png
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just had to grep it using this command:

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ls /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications | grep zen

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Thanks guys

lucid raven
twin night