Steve Kleene wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +0000, I wrote: > > > From my command line, I tried > > > > BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER > > > > but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and > > sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and /etc/mailcap > > listed sensible-browser. I did this all with metamail, which is kind of > > archaic. > > On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the > > "&&". > > I just did try that with the "&&", and I still got sensible-browser when I > used metamail. Maybe that's unexpected, but at least listing iceweasel in > ~/.mailcap has worked.
AFAIK it is still true that unless you have taken special measures (e.g. ~/.xsession) then the .bashrc environment will not be present to the GNOME desktop. Therefore while setting BROWSER in .bashrc will work for invocations of sensible-browser from the command line it won't have any effect for when GNOME is launched. Instead for GNOME it appears in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55gnome-session_gnomerc that you need to put settings into ~/.gnomerc instead. I mention this because Paul said he was running GNOME. Users running other session managers would be better served to use ~/.xsession. Probably best to have the .gnomerc simply dot source (with '.' not 'source', Xsession is a /bin/sh script not a /bin/bash script) the .bashrc file so that you get the same environment both places. Bob
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