On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:06:33AM +0000, jindam, vani wrote: > i am trying to use debian with least > packages. i dont have any desktop > environment. i have installed base system > + mc, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.
So you use openbox... and what, startx? Or some Display Manager (DM)? This matters, because the ~/.profile file will not be read if you login with a DM. Also, how are you launching your "default browser"? Please be precise and specific. Does openbox have some sort of "browser button" that launches a mystery browser? Are you clicking underlined URLs in a terminal emulator (if so, which one)? Clicking links in a GUI mail user agent (if so, which one)? Something else? The sad fact is that Linux does not *have* a single unified concept of a "default web browser" the way some other operating systems might. Each individual Desktop Environment or application therefore has its *own* concept of "default browser" and its own way of launching it. I also find it quite strange that you're inter-mixing GUI and terminal web browsers (e.g. palemoon and lynx) and thinking that you can drop one of them into a configuration slot that expects the other. Trying to launch lynx (for example) from a GUI environment without being inside a terminal emulator is going to fail. If you need to launch lynx from that kind of environment, you might need to write a wrapper script that looks something like: #!/bin/sh exec xterm -e lynx "$@" ... and then choose that wrapper script as your GUI web browser, in whatever configuration thing you're working with.
