diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f054289..16b0f17 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Depends:
     systemd,
     x11-xserver-utils,
     xdg-user-dirs,
+    xdg-utils,
     xen-utils-common,
     xenstore-utils,
     xinit,
diff --git a/qubes-rpc/qubes-open b/qubes-rpc/qubes-open
index 1c13b42..4722fe6 100644
--- a/qubes-rpc/qubes-open
+++ b/qubes-rpc/qubes-open
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ if [ -r /etc/profile.d/qubes-session.sh ]; then
     . /etc/profile.d/qubes-session.sh
 fi
 
-MIMEINFO_DATABASES="/usr/share/mime:/usr/local/share/mime:$HOME/.local/share/mime:/usr/share/qubes/mime-override"
-
-exec mimeopen -n --database "$MIMEINFO_DATABASES" "$@"
+# gvfs-open, kde-open, and possibly others don't wait for editor to be
+# closed, which is critical behaviour for DisposableVM (which gets destroyed
+# after this process exits)
+export DE=generic
+exec xdg-open "$@"
diff --git a/rpm_spec/core-vm.spec b/rpm_spec/core-vm.spec
index 065efe1..7a32bfc 100644
--- a/rpm_spec/core-vm.spec
+++ b/rpm_spec/core-vm.spec
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Requires:   NetworkManager >= 0.8.1-1
 # Fedora >= 18 defaults to firewalld, which isn't supported nor needed by Qubes
 Conflicts:  firewalld
 %endif
-Requires:	/usr/bin/mimeopen
+Requires:	xdg-utils
 Requires:   ethtool
 Requires:   tinyproxy
 Requires:   ntpdate