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Default applications not linked (and not launching) on PinePhone

Describe your issue

What's the expected behaviour?

Applications will launch if a file is opened. E.g. music player on clicking on a .mp3 file.

What's the current behaviour?

Most applications aren't launching. There may be an error message, or nothing at all.

Default Applications in Settings shows no entries except for Browser and Image Files, and I can't select anything manually.

How to reproduce your issue?

Try to open a file in, e.g. Portfolio, or another app such as a messenger.

Open Settings->Default Applications and try to set e.g Music

What device are you using?

PINE64 PinePhone

On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

  • edge (master branch)
  • v21.12

On what environment did you encounter the issue?

Phone environments

  • Phosh
  • Plasma Mobile
  • Sxmo (Wayland/Sway)

Other

  • No environment
  • GNOME
  • KDE Plasma
  • Kodi
  • MATE
  • Shelli
  • Sway
  • Weston
  • Xfce4
  • fbkeyboard
  • i3wm
  • Sxmo (Xorg/Dwm)

How did you get postmarketOS image?

What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)

Additional information

The applications that are working are the original ones shipped with pmOS 21.12.2 Phosh. I've changed some of the others. e.g. audacious instead of lollypop. Email is geary.

I have the same OS and version (and applications) on motorola-harpia. All the fields in Default Applications have entries and are launching correctly.

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