On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 06:34:19PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 02:42:23AM +0200, Thor Andreassen wrote:
> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 04:22:16PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > > Running Squeeze and Mutt 1.5.21-4~bpo60+1 with urlscan. Ctl-b shows the
> > > URLs but clicking one opens the Epiphany browser. Searches haven't
> > > turned up a way to call Iceweasel 
> > 
> > As per urlscan(1) it calls sensible-browser(1) on the url. So to change
> > the default, you set the BROWSER variable in mutts environment, eg. for
> > bash:
> > 
> > BROWSER=iceweasel mutt
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > export BROWSER=iceweasel
> > mutt

or: on debian(and maybe on ubuntu) you can set it with the alternatives system:
 update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/iceweasel

 You can even see which alternatives you have:
  update-alternatives --list x-www-browser


c.


> 
> Thanks for jogging my memory. It's been a long time since I set up
> Ubuntu and had to add the export line to .bashrc and I had completely
> forgotten.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Holtzman
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