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Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI
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Question/Clarification: How to open any web link on host? #89

Open robotictacos opened 2 years ago

robotictacos commented 2 years ago

The documentation clearly states that in order to open a file type on the host, the hstopen batch file needs to be set as the default app. This definitely seems to work in some cases. My particular use case is I am running Outlook 365 in the VM. If I click on a PDF file, that will open on my host because I've set the batch file as the default app for PDF files. However, I would like to be able to click on web links contained within emails and have those open in my host browser, but so far I don't see a way to set hstopen as the default web browser. I'm probably missing something stupid that I should have read, can you point me in the right direction?

jamespharvey20 commented 2 years ago

hstopen

For others not familiar with this, hostopen :-)

jamespharvey20 commented 2 years ago

Which version of Windows?

I gave this a few minutes, and couldn't find a way to set hostopen.bat as the default browser on Windows 10. The typical default apps interface doesn't seem to give me a way to select programs not in the list. I was able to set it for locally saved .html files, but I know that's not what you're asking for. I made a dummy .html file. I right clicked it, cliekd "Open With", "Choose another app", "More apps", clicked "Always use this app to open .html files", "Look for another app on this PC", and typed "C:\Program Files\Cassowary\hostopen.bat".

I also tried running ftype http="C:\Program Files\cassowary\hostopen.bat" %1 but that didn't affect the default browser.

robotictacos commented 2 years ago

Yes, Windows 10. I had the same experience, I can set htm/html locally saved files to open on the host, but I couldn't find a way to allow me to click a link and open said link on the host.

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Which version of Windows?

I gave this a few minutes, and couldn't find a way to set hostopen.bat as the default browser on Windows 10. The typical default apps interface doesn't seem to give me a way to select programs not in the list. I was able to set it for locally saved .html files, but I know that's not what you're asking for. I made a dummy .html file. I right clicked it, cliekd "Open With", "Choose another app", "More apps", clicked "Always use this app to open .html files", "Look for another app on this PC", and typed "C:\Program Files\Cassowary\hostopen.bat".

I also tried running ftype http="C:\Program Files\cassowary\hostopen.bat" %1 but that didn't affect the default browser.

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Bill5122 commented 8 months ago

For anyone still trying to do this, i followed the stackoverflow answer below, using hostopen.bat as the executable.

https://superuser.com/questions/1750214/win-11-regedit-set-default-app-for-http-https-launch-from-app-e-g-npm-run