On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:21:02PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or > > > > > another browser) **not** to try and become the default for > > > > > everything, rather than having to try and unset all the changes > > > > > it has made. > > > > > > > > Chris, for something like testing i would just set up > > > > another user. > > > > > > > I guess that's a possible way. However my use of epiphany tends to be > > > "oh, this web page doesn't work in vivaldi, I'll try it in epiphany", > > > having to log out and log in to another user to do this rather defeats > > > the object. > > > > I simply have a terminal already running as another user (I start a > > terminal and then su - another_user) so I just have to type the browser > > name if I want to use it. Or use up-arrow to access the browser > > history. For me that seems to be a tolerable level of effort. > > > How does that help? The other user will have all the same default > browser settings that you do. You can't install something for use by > one user and not another user, at least not using apt you can't.
Those DE-ish (and related) configuration things typically happen per-user (apart from Debian's alternatives mechanism, but if I have been following along, that one has been discarded already in the discussion). Just imagine setting a default browser for yourself and forcing all the other users into it... Cheers -- t
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