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 > "&&".
On 2011-07-26 02:39:24 GMT, I wrote: > 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. I should clarify that I am doing all of this from command lines under a window manager (fvwm). When I call startx, the first xterm's settings come from ~/.bash_login. But if I call more xterms from there, any settings in ~/.bashrc override those. This was easily verified by playing with the login prompt (PS1). Assume I have no text/html entry in ~/.mailcap and no BROWSER defined in my settings (as verified by "echo $BROWSER"). If I then call metamail, it calls sensible-browser, which in turns calls x-www-browser. I don't know where that is defined; it's not in /etc/mailcap. If I define BROWSER as iceweasel in ~/.bash_login, and then call metamail from any xterm, then sensible- browser calls iceweasel. If I only define BROWSER in ~/.bashrc, this doesn't happen for the first xterm but does from subsequent ones. In any case, there are six processes: 26091 26012 metamail z 26092 26091 sh -c metamail /tmp/MK962cH 26093 26092 metamail /tmp/MK962cH 26094 26093 sh -c /usr/bin/sensible-browser '/tmp/MNk6vkK' 26095 26094 /bin/sh /usr/bin/sensible-browser /tmp/MNk6vkK 26097 26095 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin /tmp/MNk6vkK The other approach is to have a text/html entry for iceweasel in /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap. I prefer this solution. Sensible-browser isn't called at all, and there are five processes: 25339 25255 metamail z 25341 25339 sh -c metamail /tmp/Mmml5k6 25342 25341 metamail /tmp/Mmml5k6 25344 25342 sh -c /usr/bin/iceweasel '/tmp/MM6RYsV' 25345 25344 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin /tmp/MM6RYsV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20110726t145501...@post.gmane.org
