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Thanks for posting about this! I never thought to try this as an Akregator user, but it's a great idea... I spent the past day getting this to work since I also use the Flatpaks; hope it helps.
As suggested by @progandy@feddit.de, one solution is to define a custom protocol where the URL gets passed to a script that opens Firefox Reader with the URL; here's what I've done:
xdg-open
since that should be available to the Flatpak. I usedfirefox-reader
as the protocol, so I putxdg-open firefox-reader://%u
as the custom command (so a command Akregator would run might look likexdg-open firefox-reader://https://example.com
).~/.local/share/applications
is the standard place to put these, as far as I'm aware. Since the custom protocol needs to be removed from the URL, I wrote a script (also below) to do this and then call Firefox withabout:reader?url=
prefixed. The script can be anywhere in$PATH
.xdg-mime default org.mozilla.firefox.reader.desktop x-scheme-handler/firefox-reader
(org.mozilla.firefox.reader.desktop
is the name of my desktop entry file).update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
soxdg-open
would find the "Firefox Reader" desktop entry.My Firefox Reader desktop entry
open-firefox-reader.sh script
If you have any other trouble or want to find more information about this since the desktop entry could probably be tweaked, here are the sources of note I used to figure this out (If I forgot a step or two writing this, they should also be present somewhere in there):
Thank you for the very thorough reply! For god knows what reason I get this error:
error: app/org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable not installed
when running the xdg-open firefox-reader command, yet manually runningflatpak run --user org.mozilla.firefox about:reader?url=https://example.com
works just fine. I'll have to troubleshoot it when I have a bit more time ;pThanks again for your very thorough write up and the linked articles. Have a good day :)
Update: It seems like on my system, the
--user
flag was the issue, removing it made the script function. I am using Fedora Kinoite (Immutable version of KDE Plasma), so perhaps it is just a difference in how flatpak is configured between distros? I'll have to read into it more later.Cheers, glad to hear you got it working. I don't think there's any problem on your end; all my flatpaks are user-installed as a Guix System user, so it didn't cross my mind that a habitually-placed
--user
flag would not work if something was installed system-wide!