xdg-open can't open web links

**Daniel_Rosehill** · April 22nd, 2020

Hi folks,

I've been having this problem for the past year probably but it's now come to a head as it's preventing me from installing google-drive-ocamlfuse.

Whenever a CLI attempts to open a browser tab I get an error message and it appears as if my home directory is being automatically prefixed to the URL — so the command fails.

E.g. when I run google-drive-ocamlfuse in a terminal the program should open by default web browser (Chrome) and bring me to the login screen.

Instead I get:

Code:

/home/myuser/https:/accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=111111111111111.apps.googleusercont ent.com&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgd-ocaml-auth.appspot.com%2Foauth2callback&scope=https%3A%2 F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fdrive&response_typ e=code&access_type=offline&approval_prompt=force&s tate=454545454545454545454: No such file or directory

https://i.imgur.com/wlT9fkR.png

Does anybody know what might be causing this and what I need to change for CLIs to be able to open links again?

This is an LXDE specific bug - when I log out and use GNOME xde-open www.url.com works as expected and opens the link in my default browser (Chrome)

**guiverc** · April 22nd, 2020

Originally Posted by Daniel_Rosehill

Hi folks,

I've been having this problem for the past year probably ...

This is an LXDE specific bug ...

You haven't specified a release (but I take it's 19.10 or 20.04 from ask.ubuntu), but please confirm.

The past year grabs me though; in April 2019 a $BROWSER issue was tasked to be addressed in Lubuntu and subsequently fixed (ie. LXQt), something specifically impacting chrome & chromium (maybe T53). The Lubuntu team no longer supports LXDE except in 18.04 so your release may matter (though my memory is vague as I'd have heard details only 3rd hand).