On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2016 22:24:40 Doug wrote: > > On 06/11/2016 03:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings gui panel experts; > > > > > > After the first round of replacing iceweasel with firefox, since > > > it pointed at the firefox-esr binary after that, I killed the > > > iceweasel icon on the panel, only to discover that the firefox > > > icon pointed at the even older version, so I have edited it > > > several times and now have it launching firefox 47.0, but I saw > > > synaptic dl and install 47.1, but I've NDI which of the numerous > > > copy's of firefox in /usr/bin is now the correct one. Anybody > > > actually know which is correct after todays, 3rd round of updates > > > from firefox-whatever to firefox-47.1? > > > > > > And of course in the playing around I have now a text icon in > > > place of the usual firefox icon, and apparently no way in fiddling > > > with the properties of the icon, to correct that. > > > > > > I know that text icon is linked to some version of firefox, and > > > I'm not convinced I have the correct even now, see above version > > > diff. > > > > > > I could use a little help. > > How many are in your menu? > 2 firefox firefox-esr And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few months long in the tooth.
> If more than one, and they are not clearly labelled, check, by > starting them, which is the right one, and then use the menu tool to > remove the "wrong" one(s). Right click on panel. <configure panel> > -> < menus> -> <edit TDE menu> > > Now to tackle the icons. *Delete* *all* *of* *them*, including the > text one. Now go to the menu. Open it. Right click on the version of > Firefox that you have left there. Click, in the list that opens, on > wherever you want the icon. (Panel, desktop etc.) I went the other way a just drug firefox to the panel, and killed the dead panel entry. Works a treat. > Job done. > > >> All > >> > > > created by somebody deciding to repoint the iceweasel icon to the > > > new firefox, its sure turned into a whats this nightmare here. > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package manager. > Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have just looked in > my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and firefox-real. So I have > experimented. Firefox-esr is the one aptitude installed, and is > Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, and is the one I installed. I > have both in my menu, clearly labelled Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let > aptitude do its thing. It has left life simple. > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and will be until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the whole screen instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the screen real estate. And it been that disaster since I first saw it 18 years ago. > In the launcher, "firefox" launches firefox-real and "iceweasel" > launches firefox-esr, as does "firefox-esr". It doesn't seem to me to > matter that the command "iceweasel" has been told to launch > firefox-esr, now iceweasel is no more.. :-/ Yup, that is a part of the puzzle I don't grok. > I have: > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports firefox-release > in my sources.list. I am fascinated that as a result of that, and the > fact that I did have iceweasel, aptitude is keeping two versions of > firefox up-to-date!! I'll have to see that. > > Why do anything the easy way when the difficult way will do, eh, Gene? > ;-) > > Lisi All I really wanted to do was fix the icon, but I had to junk that car and buy a new one. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
