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copied!<p>Ended up source diving. I wrote and stepped into a simple Eclipse Application that only gets the default browser the way Eclipse (the IDE) itself does (<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.ui.browser/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/browser/SystemBrowserInstance.java?view=markup#l31" rel="nofollow">in org.eclipse.ui.internal.browser.SystemBrowserInstance</a>):</p> <pre><code>Program.findProgram("html") </code></pre> <p>Turns out Eclipse identifies my "desktop" as <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse%20SWT%20Program/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/program/Program.java?view=markup#l59" rel="nofollow">DESKTOP_GIO</a>, because I have the <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.29/" rel="nofollow">GIO library</a> installed as part of some GNOME dependency. Because it ID's me as such it calls this libgio function:</p> <pre><code>g_app_info_get_default_for_type("text/html", false) </code></pre> <p><a href="http://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.29/ch03.html" rel="nofollow">According to the docs</a>, GIO applications use the X Desktop Group (XDG) "standard" <a href="http://freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec" rel="nofollow">Shared MIME-info Database</a> to find applications that support a given MIME type.</p> <p>In my case, I've never registered any application as the default handler for text/html, but Eclipse simply chooses the first one returned (which happens to be <code>winebrowser</code>, since it has a <code>wine-extension-html.desktop</code> entry in my <code>~/.local/share/applications/</code> directory).</p> <p>In the end I used:</p> <pre><code>desktop-file-install \ --rebuild-mime-info-cache \ --dir ~/.local/share/applications \ custom-script.desktop </code></pre> <p>to add a desktop entry for my custom script, and:</p> <pre><code>xdg-mime default custom-script.desktop text/html </code></pre> <p>to set it as the default for "html" files.</p>

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