Open a specific vault with Obsidian URI

[8tungdata]

Hello,

how can I configure this with a tiling manager like i3 or in my case with awesome wm?

I use linux manjaro with awesome wm and Obsidian as an AppImage.

I would like to open a certain vault of obsidian with a shortkey. I read the solution is to start AppImage with the uri for a special vault. How can I achieve this?

Thanks for your effort,
8tungdata

[anon93337645]

What did you try? Can you open a specific vault from the command line? In my case, I can use either obsidian or xdg-open to open the URI scheme described in the manual: Using obsidian URI

Like obsidian "URI to specific vault".

[8tungdata]

I have the “Obsidian-0.12.10.AppImage”. I can not open a special vault with the uri.

A simple Obsidian-0.12.10.AppImage URI-to-specific-vault doesn’t work.

Maybe I don’t understand the syntax. My Vault is /run/media/Drafting/. What is the correct command to open it on command line?

This is what I get:

`./Obsidian-0.12.10.AppImage://open?vault=Drafting

-bash: ./Obsidian-0.12.10.AppImage://open?vault=Drafting: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden`

Error: File or Directory not found. With the absolute path its the same.

[anon93337645]

In my case, obsidian "obsidian://open?vault=Drafting" would be able to open the vault. xdg-open works too.

And of course, try the stuffs from the comments above our posts. They may have the solution for you. edit: Ok, this sentence doesn’t make sense because they split the original thread.

[rigmarole]

In the docs, I noticed the link to “See here for details” is a 404 error. But there is a similar page here maybe: Desktop entries - ArchWiki

Hi @santi sorry for the ping, but have you set up the Obsidian URI scheme in Linux Manjaro?

[argentum]

I should add instructions for this to the Meta thread.

In the meantime, @8tungdata can you let us know the following? (These are the commands for Ubuntu, YMMV)

• how your desktop file looks like?
• the output of xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/obsidian?
• the output of xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler obsidian?
• whether/where does obsidian show up in your ~/.config/mimeapps.list?
• does the URI work when you paste it on your browser?

[8tungdata]

I get no output of all of this commands. There is no obsidian entry in ~/.config/mimeapps.list. The URI doesn’t work in the browser. I’m using Manjaro. There is no URI configuration. I’m also using no wm with desktop files. This is the reason why I have no desktop file. I use awesom wm, this is a tiling windows manager.

https://awesomewm.org/

Seems there is no easy way to get this functionality without using something like xfce, kde or gnome? For the moment I have to give up. I’m on holidays next week. Thanks for your efforts.

[argentum]

I am using i3 (also a tiling wm) on Ubuntu 18.04. You need to configure the Obsidian URL for it to work. Here are some rough instructions of what I did:

Meta Post - Linux tips, tricks & solutions to common problems

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 …

I don’t know the specifics of awesome wm, but there has to be a way to do something equivalent if it doesn’t support desktop files.

[8tungdata]

Thank you, very much.

xdg-open obsidian://open?vault=Drafting opens my vault “Drafting”

I configured the obsidian URL after your instructions. It works.