Anyone able to make URI works on chromium/chrome on linux?

[anon93337645]

Things I have tried

I tried typing obsidian://open?vault=vault_name in chromium’s address bar. It doesn’t work.

It works with firefox, and obsidian "obsidian://open?vault=vault_name" or xdg-open "obsidian://open?vault=vault_name" works in the command line.

What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to make URI work with chromium on linux.

[SG7jit]

Hey, I’ve tried using URIs on Pop!_OS and it didn’t work on chromium browser but works on firefox(as you said). I think this is got to do with chromium browser not being the default browser. This is similar to how your Syncthing web GUI won’t open on chromium if it isn’t the default browser.

[anon93337645]

My chromium is the default browser though. Like if I click links in obsidian or elsewhere, it opens in chromium.

[argentum]

I just added a few steps here to set up the Obsidian URI… maybe double check what xdg-mime and xdg-settings output. It might also depend on how you’re setting your default browser too (I use Firefox as my default, so I can’t help with the Chromium part unfortunately).

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Setting up the Obsidian URI on Linux (tested on Ubuntu 18.04, YMMV) Make sure your desktop file is set up correctly. If it doesn’t exist, you can create it. I have mine on ~/.local/share/applications: Then run: xdg-mime default obsidian.destkop x-scheme-handler/obsidian update-desktop-database Check that the URI works by confirming that the output of both xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/obsidian and xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler obsidian is obsidian.desktop. It should …