Have dabbled in linux for a couple of years but am still a NEWB.
Have installed the latest Manjaro on my home HTPC- used for watching streaming services, videos etc. Much prefer it to other distros.
Have a background in sound engineering so am enjoying the felixibiity of pipewire.
The particular problem I have is, in order to process the sound of different ( web )sources independently, I need to be able to override the default application for some of the weblinks.
To explain:
First, the majority of my sources are webpage shortcuts with the exception of recordings.
The vast majority are shorcuts from Brave browser- which is set as my default browser.
The audio feed from the browser ( via pipewire ) has its dynamic range heavily reduced , so that I don’t have the usual ‘’ but the dialogue is so quiet compared to the effects’’ syndrome
Now the problem is for audio sources that are just music ( i.e Amazon music ), I need to open ( AUTOMATICALLY ) the web link with a different browser ( Firefox ) so that the audio from that browser ( via pipewire ) can be treated differently, i.e not at all.
It is easy to set the audio up in pipewire so the applications are treated separately.
So … for most of the web page links, and the video recordings, I am happy using the default Browser and media player.
BUT, for music only website links, I need to open the link with FIREFOX, NOT Brave!
Is there a simple way to achieve this on XFCE?
I have tried opening properties of the link and pointing to Firefox, and it works, but it is not permanent and needs to be done every time, reverting back to default otherwise.
Bear in mind this is a family set up and family will not want to do that .They just want to pick the relevant shortcut icon and have the relevant application open it without any further work on there half.
Phew- many thanks for any ideas - please bear in mind my newbness.
Thanks for replying.
Yes, basically our tv consists of a number of icons which are weblinks to streaming services.
here is what the properties say for the Netflix shortcut via Brave;
Name brave-eppojlglocelodeimnohnlnionkobfln-Default.desktop
In case it is useful, the shortcut produced by firefox has slightly different properties
for example the amazon music properties for the link does not have a “launcher” tab but instead a “link” tab which has a URL link
Ok … the saved desktop files from firefox assume firefox is the default browser and so only use the link attributes.
To get around this we can copy the way firefox launches itself and add the link from the file.
So opening the .desktop file in a text editor we may see something like this:
Then you can change the ‘type’ to Application, and specify the string you want including any flags and the destination URL. (do note I will include optional flags I use for hardware acceleration here, to be instructive in the case you need to apply similar options)
