Mark LaPierre wrote: > > Thanks for the detailed response. Just a minor error. The file name > must have a .desktop extension like this: Sorry, a copy-n-paste error when creating the email > In a shell: > > [mlapier at peach ~]$ which xdgurl > /usr/bin/xdgurl > > [mlapier at peach ~]$ xdgurl > "xdg://install?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.opendesktop.org%2Fapi%2Ffiles%2Fdownload%2Fid%2F1476439340%2Frmfixed.bdf&type=fonts&filename=rmfixed.bdf" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/xdgurl", line 21, in <module> > if sys.version_info.major >= 3: > AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'major' > [mlapier at peach ~]$ > > No joy, I don't know anything about xdg and xdgurl - only a little bit about adding protocol handlers to Firefox :-) James Pearson