Gnome default apps are greyed out under Settings

[greentemp2]

Hello, I installed very minimal Gnome shell and from there I progressed by installing necessary packages individually, this is because I love minimalistic setup which allows me to pick what I want installed on my computer. There’s 2 things that I miss currently

• Gnome settings doesn’t allow you to change default apps and some are greyed out
• Gnome device security is unavailable in settings.

Is someone aware which packages I am missing that need to be installed for this functionality to be present?

Gnome Version: 45.4
Windowing System: Wayland
OS: Arch Linux

Default Apps Screenshot

Device Security Screnshot

[greentemp2]

To resolve Gnome device security being unavailable in Arch linux, you need

fwupd

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/fwupd

command to install: sudo pacman -S fwupd

Still need help figuring out how to resolve default apps

[chrisaw (Chris Williams)]

Do you have any other apps installed that should appear there? The lists are populated by apps that advertise support for the appropriate mime type:

panels/applications/cc-default-apps-page.ui · main · GNOME / Settings · GitLab

If there’s more than one candidate, you’ll see a dropdown.

[greentemp2]

I use LibreWolf, is there any way to check if this is supported? LibreWolf is based off Firefox with more privacy focus

[greentemp2]

I think you can check by running these, but I don’t want to go manual way of setting these. I wish to change it via Settings.

Anyway, here is command

Whenever clicking on Links it opens in Builder app. Here are the settings queried from my pc:

xdg-mime query default text/html

librewolf.desktop

cat /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache | grep librewolf

application/json=librewolf.desktop;org.gnome.Builder.desktop;
application/pdf=librewolf.desktop;
application/x-xpinstall=librewolf.desktop;
application/xhtml+xml=librewolf.desktop;
text/html=librewolf.desktop;org.gnome.Builder.desktop;
text/xml=librewolf.desktop;org.gnome.Builder.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=librewolf.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=librewolf.desktop;

gio mime text/html

Default application for “text/html”: org.gnome.Builder.desktop
Registered applications:
	org.gnome.Builder.desktop
	org.gnome.TextEditor.desktop
Recommended applications:
	org.gnome.Builder.desktop