Getting Chromium Web Browser to Open Citrix Receiver in OpenSuse

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I had already installed Citrix ICA Client on my OpenSuse machine. You get the software here:

http://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/linux/receiver-for-linux-130.html

This worked on Firefox for awhile, but policies were changed for Windows only at the site. I did noticed that Chromium still used the old standard. When you login into your Citrix launch site with Chromium and click on an icon, it will download a file like “launch.ica” and when I tried to launch it would just open in Kwrite.

To fix this I followed the instructions for Ubuntu - these instructions mostly work, I’m giving credit to the original poster of the solution in that forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1645173

Here are the actions that worked for me in OpenSuse 13.1

Creating MIME types for Citrix ICA Client

  1. Create new file /usr/share/applications/wfica.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Citrix ICA client
GenericName=Citrix ICA Client
Comment=Citrix nFuse session file
Categories=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica
Icon=wfica
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=application/x-ica

  1. Create new file /usr/share/mime/packages/ica.xml

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?>
<mime-info xmlns=“http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info”>
<mime-type type=“application/x-ica”>
<comment>Citrix ICA launcher</comment>
<glob pattern="*.ica"/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

  1. su into root and issue this command

update-desktop-database && sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

  1. Run the following from the command line:

xdg-mime install --novendor /usr/share/mime/packages/ica.xml

xdg-mime default wfica.desktop application/x-ica

  1. At this point, if you click on a browser link that should launch an application using Citrix, it will download a file called something like “launch.ica”. If you click on the little arrow next to this file, and choose “Always open files of this type”, then choose “Open”, it should work.
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This was very helpful. Thanks for posting it.

My environment is opensuse 13.1 using the Mate desktop and Firefox web browser. I was researching mimetypes (i.e., where do they come from, defaults, how to add or change them). In KDE this was done via an app in Personal Settings/Configure Desktop -> File Associations.

I gleamed a lot of info here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_Applications

The way presented here is definitely more advanced. If you wanted to just impact a single user, a right-click “Open With” would do the trick. I suspect all file browsers might operate in a similar fashion. Caja, Mate’s file browser, shows first the Default application, a horizontal line, then Other applications that handle the mimetype with the last entry being, “Open With Other Application”. This info is also presented when you right-click and select “Properties” -> “Open With”. As far as I can tell this creates a X.desktop (where X is the appname) file and updates mimeapps.list in $HOME/.local/share/applications/. Firefox Preferences -> Applications has a similar dialog with the same end results.

A man -k xdg shows other xdg commands which I’m just starting to read about. xdg-mime query filetype FILE is particularly helpful in this case.

The nice thing about opensuse is, they put lots of documentation in their files.