pulls up web pages in kate instead of with browser

[Tom_ZeCat]

I use a password vault program named Keepass 2. It has a feature that lets you click on the icon of a world and it brings you to the web page of an entry. It used to work great. Now for some reason it pulls up the web page's code in Kate instead. I've noticed this in other software applications. You know how you can choose to go to an application's web site? If I choose that, it's the same thing as in Keepass. The web page's code loads up in Kate. What gives? How can I fix this?

[Tom_ZeCat]

Anyone? I went into System Settings and then:
Applications ==> File Associations ==> Text ==> HTML
First I moved Kate way back and put the browsers in front of it. It worked at first when I pulled up the help in a program named Geany. However, Kate moved back to the front of the list. Then I removed Kate completely from the list and pulled up help in Pycharm, but stupid Kate pulled up the HTML page AGAIN. I looked at the list again and Kate was back.

WTF?

I'm frustrated out of my wits. Why does Kate keep coming back? The bitch is stalking me already.

I'm not sure if it's related, but it's happened simultaneously with wobbly windows quitting working. It's set to do it, but they don't work.

[Tom_ZeCat]

An update: I just went into Muon and purged Kate from my system, and that seems to have worked. Of course, now I can't use Kate as my notepad. I guess I'll use Leafpad. Why do I only attract crazy stalking bitches?

[jlittle]

...First I moved Kate way back and put the browsers in front of it... However, Kate moved back to the front of the list...

Maybe a permissions problem in your home directory? .config/mimeapps.lst is where your customizations go, you might like to check it out, maybe it's screwed up.

[Tom_ZeCat]

Maybe a permissions problem in your home directory? .config/mimeapps.lst is where your customizations go, you might like to check it out, maybe it's screwed up.

Okay, thanks. I'll check it out. I wonder if it's what screwed up wobbly windows. WW isn't an urgent feature, but it's weird that it doesn't run.

[GreyGeek]

Yup, ZeCat, you ran into the file association bug. It's been fixed but subsequent updates appear to have reverted the fix.
The solution is:
ln -sf ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
(comment #9)

[Tom_ZeCat]

Yup, ZeCat, you ran into the file association bug. It's been fixed but subsequent updates appear to have reverted the fix.
The solution is:
ln -sf ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
(comment #9)

That appears to have fixed it. Crossing my fingers that it holds. I haven't checked to see if it will fix the wobbly windows problem. The WWs are not an essential feature, though they're kind of fun. I went in and set HTML files to auto-open with Firefox. That's what happens in Pycharm. Interestingly enough, in Geany, they open in Opera. That's curious, but it's working so I'll live with it.

[Snowhog]

Geany likely has an option in it's configuration settings for opening html pages that specifiies Opera. Assuming that is so, you can/should be able to change it to Firefox.

[Tom_ZeCat]

Geany likely has an option in it's configuration settings for opening html pages that specifiies Opera. Assuming that is so, you can/should be able to change it to Firefox.

Okay, thanks. This main problem is fixed. Wobbly Windows still don't work. It's nothing urgent, but I do wonder why they don't work, despite my turning them on in settings.

[Snowhog]

Effects that don't work is usually an indication that your graphics card/chip doesn't support the effect.

[Tom_ZeCat]

Effects that don't work is usually an indication that your graphics card/chip doesn't support the effect.

My graphics card does support it. It's worked since I first got this computer about 2 years ago. Suddenly it doesn't work anymore.

[Snowhog]

A two year old graphics card is, well "old", and that it doesn't support everything it did "then" "now" could very well be due to the driver no longer supporting the effect. It might also be the 3-D Renderer setting you are using.

[Tom_ZeCat]

A two year old graphics card is, well "old", and that it doesn't support everything it did "then" "now" could very well be due to the driver no longer supporting the effect. It might also be the 3-D Renderer setting you are using.

You've hit on one of my computing pet peeves. What's the point in updating a driver for a device if that update causes it to have less capabilities than it had before? I would have been better off with the old driver. In this case, it's not an urgent feature. I can certainly live without wobbly windows, but what if it had been a feature that actually was urgent? One of the reasons I use a Linux-based OS is so that my hardware won't become obsolete as fast. I'm still using a laptop that I bought in 2012 and zips along, thanks to it being Kubuntu-run and not Windows. I feel like planned obsolescence is a Windows, not a Linux thing, or at least it should be.

Anyway, thanks for everyone's help. I got the important thing fixed, the calling of a browser for the applications' help feature. I'll live without wobbly windows unless there's some kind of easy fix I've overlooked.

[Snowhog]

One of the reasons I use a Linux-based OS is so that my hardware won't become obsolete as fast. I'm still using a laptop that I bought in 2012 and zips along, thanks to it being Kubuntu-run and not Windows. I feel like planned obsolescence is a Windows, not a Linux thing, or at least it should be.

Running Linux on your computer doesn't mean that hardware obsolescence won't occur. Kubuntu Linux is more or less 'cutting edge' Linux, at least that is (more) so if one is running a current release. Software evolves, and that evolution will at times; likely all the time (eventually); result in some hardware issues with some users. One cannot expect to be able to run without issues, or to even install, a modern Linux OS on older, outdated computers. And, at some point, every computer will fall into that category.