William,

Thank you, that did the trick ;-)...Dave

On Nov 5, 10:03 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, davedo2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm having an annoying problem with my recent install of the 2.8.11
> > binary on a Kubuntu 7.10 system. The install went fine and make test
> > ran to completion with no errors other than two that related to .tex
> > files (I don't have latex installed.) Sage starts fine and seems OK,
> > but notebook() launches Konqueror instead of Firefox (in previous
> > installs either Firefox started automatically with the notebook
> > interface or I was prompted to launch it with a specific IP.) If I
> > close Konqueror and start Firefox then the notebook runs fine, but how
> > do I get it associated properly with the notebook() command?
> > Thanks for your assistance...Dave
>
> This actually isn't really a Sage question per se, but I know the answer
> anyways.  In Kubuntu go K Menu --> System Settings, the seelct
> the "Default Applications" icon in the first row.  click the "Web browser"
> line on the left.  Under the "Default Component" box change the
> button to "in the following browser", and in the blank type "firefox".
> Then it should work correctly in Sage.
>
> From the command line the impact of the above is it changes
> what xdg-open does.   E.g.,
>   xdg-openhttp://sagemath.org
> # before that would open knonquerror
> Now,
>   xdg-openhttp://sagemath.org
> # will open firefox.
>
>  -- William


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