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Re:Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications by sam_lowry_ on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:10PM (#46756469)
> what am I missing here?

There are gotchas, for instance Chrom,{e,ium} insists on XDG_DESKTOP_DIR != XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR.

See this bug report from a confused user: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41076564

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Re:Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications by mikkupikku on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:02PM (#46757052)
> also of note, we (mostly) don't allow ~/Desktop as the download dir for security reasons

This isn't an XDG issue. It's a chromium engineers being silly pricks that think they know better than the power users who obviously went out of their way to create such a configuration. Also I bet it would work if you set your XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to ~/Download/

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Re:Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications by flexagoon on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:15PM (#46770166)
This is XDG base directories, not XDG default applications. They're two different freedesktop specifications.
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