App chooser dialog always shows when opening URL

[eunakria]

Whenever I try to open a URL from a Flatpak, I'm always prompted to select an application and have to manually specify Firefox.

Here's what I tried:

• busctl --user call org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI OpenURI 'ssa{sv}' '' 'https://google.com/' 0, which gives me this prompt:
  
• journalctl --user -u xdg-desktop-portal, which has no logs of particular interest. Just in case, I'll attach them anyway.

Logs:

$ journalctl --user -u xdg-desktop-portal
-- Logs begin at Wed 2019-02-06 17:40:29 EST, end at Fri 2019-03-01 22:04:30 EST. --
Feb 06 18:13:48 anchor systemd[486]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 06 18:13:48 anchor systemd[486]: Started Portal service.
Feb 06 18:13:48 anchor xdg-desktop-por[3929]: Unable to retrieve info for 'x-scheme-handler/https' in the desktop-used-apps table of the permission store: No entry for x-scheme-handler/https
Feb 06 21:53:29 anchor systemd[486]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 06 21:53:29 anchor systemd[486]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 06 21:53:29 anchor systemd[486]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 06 21:53:29 anchor systemd[486]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 07 15:34:09 anchor systemd[530]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 07 15:34:10 anchor systemd[530]: Started Portal service.
Feb 07 15:34:10 anchor xdg-desktop-por[7238]: Unable to retrieve info for 'x-scheme-handler/https' in the desktop-used-apps table of the permission store: No entry for x-scheme-handler/https
Feb 09 16:08:02 Anchor xdg-desktop-portal[7238]: No protocol specified
Feb 09 16:08:02 Anchor xdg-desktop-portal[7238]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Feb 09 16:08:02 Anchor xdg-desktop-portal[7238]: Error: cannot open display: :0
Feb 09 16:08:26 Anchor xdg-desktop-portal[7238]: No protocol specified
Feb 09 16:08:26 Anchor xdg-desktop-portal[7238]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Feb 09 16:08:26 Anchor xdg-desktop-portal[7238]: Error: cannot open display: :0
Feb 10 18:03:21 Anchor systemd[530]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 10 18:03:21 Anchor systemd[530]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 10 18:03:21 Anchor systemd[530]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 10 18:03:21 Anchor systemd[530]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 10 18:23:09 Anchor systemd[577]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 10 18:23:09 Anchor systemd[577]: Started Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 12 15:20:44 Anchor systemd[591]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 12 15:20:44 Anchor systemd[591]: Started Portal service.
Feb 13 17:57:56 Anchor systemd[591]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 13 17:57:56 Anchor systemd[591]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 13 17:57:56 Anchor systemd[591]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 13 17:57:56 Anchor systemd[591]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 13 18:19:17 Anchor systemd[585]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 13 18:19:17 Anchor systemd[585]: Started Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 15 22:38:43 Anchor systemd[611]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 15 22:38:43 Anchor systemd[611]: Started Portal service.
Feb 17 09:21:47 Anchor systemd[611]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 17 09:21:47 Anchor systemd[611]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 17 09:21:47 Anchor systemd[611]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 17 09:21:47 Anchor systemd[611]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 17 11:27:59 Anchor systemd[606]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 17 11:27:59 Anchor systemd[606]: Started Portal service.
Feb 18 16:55:23 Anchor systemd[606]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 18 16:55:23 Anchor systemd[606]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 18 16:55:23 Anchor systemd[606]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 18 16:55:23 Anchor systemd[606]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 18 20:58:20 Anchor systemd[595]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 18 20:58:21 Anchor systemd[595]: Started Portal service.
Feb 20 19:32:45 Anchor systemd[595]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 20 19:32:45 Anchor systemd[595]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 20 19:32:45 Anchor systemd[595]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 20 19:32:45 Anchor systemd[595]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 21 19:48:01 Anchor systemd[604]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 21 19:48:01 Anchor systemd[604]: Started Portal service.
Feb 22 19:12:13 Anchor systemd[604]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 22 19:12:13 Anchor systemd[604]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 22 19:12:13 Anchor systemd[604]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 22 19:12:13 Anchor systemd[604]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 22 20:17:02 Anchor systemd[601]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 22 20:17:02 Anchor systemd[601]: Started Portal service.
Feb 23 16:00:53 Anchor systemd[601]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 23 16:00:53 Anchor systemd[601]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 23 16:00:53 Anchor systemd[601]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 23 16:00:53 Anchor systemd[601]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 23 18:44:46 Anchor systemd[573]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 23 18:44:46 Anchor systemd[573]: Started Portal service.
Feb 24 08:29:44 Anchor systemd[573]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 24 08:29:44 Anchor systemd[573]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 24 08:29:44 Anchor systemd[573]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 24 08:29:44 Anchor systemd[573]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 24 10:47:29 Anchor systemd[583]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 24 10:47:29 Anchor systemd[583]: Started Portal service.
Feb 27 19:47:06 Anchor systemd[583]: Stopping Portal service...
Feb 27 19:47:06 Anchor systemd[583]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Feb 27 19:47:06 Anchor systemd[583]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Feb 27 19:47:06 Anchor systemd[583]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Feb 28 22:44:22 Anchor systemd[591]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 28 22:44:22 Anchor systemd[591]: Started Portal service.
Mar 01 08:00:43 Anchor systemd[591]: Stopping Portal service...
Mar 01 08:00:43 Anchor systemd[591]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
Mar 01 08:00:43 Anchor systemd[591]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Succeeded.
Mar 01 08:00:43 Anchor systemd[591]: Stopped Portal service.
-- Reboot --
Mar 01 18:49:46 Anchor systemd[624]: Starting Portal service...
Mar 01 18:49:47 Anchor systemd[624]: Started Portal service.

I am on Arch Linux and running Flatpak 1.2.3-1.

[TingPing]

Is your firefox install the normal Arch package?

[grulja]

Possible solution #313.

[Saroufim]

Similar issue: When using Lutris to launch Steam games, the App Choose always appears and there is no way to just save the choice for always using com.valvesoftware.Steam for steam://.

[Erick555]

I have the opposite issue, it doesn't show App chooser dialog but launch default browser instead

busctl --user call org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI OpenURI 'ssa{sv}' '' 'https://google.com/' 0

Someone reported same issue in #330 . Was this behavior changed or is there some switch for that?

Arch Linux, xdg-desktop-portal 1.4.2-1, KDE Plasma 5.16

[Erick555]

It seems is App chooser dialog not shown for http/https schemes: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/wiki/The-Permission-Store#the-desktop-used-apps-table

[matthiasclasen]

There is no switch for this. We special case http and https uri schemes, and launch the default app directly