would of course show all of my shell
> variables including those that were set from the .bashrc file. But
> running it from GNOME itself through the launcher would not.
>
> Creating the test script seems a little less crass than adding similar
> env dump modifications to /usr/bin/se
rough the launcher would not.
Creating the test script seems a little less crass than adding similar
env dump modifications to /usr/bin/sensible-browser itself. But doing
so there would of course eliminate the extraneous script. I would
move it out of the way and copy it back and then edit the c
> double checked by doing the tests. Variable settings in .bashrc are
> not available to GNOME.
I have this in my .bashrc and they work with no problem:
NNTPSERVER='news.sonic.net' && export NNTPSERVER
BROWSER=firefox/firefox && export BROWSER
>
> >
e while setting BROWSER in .bashrc will work for
> > invocations of sensible-browser from the command line it won't
> > have any effect for when GNOME is launched.
>
> Gnome has to be launched manually? Not my experience. On my distros it
> launches at boot. Wh
t; >
> > > but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and
> > > sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and /etc/mailcap
> > > listed sensible-browser. I did this all with metamail, which is kind of
> > > archaic.
&g
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:39:24AM +, Steve Kleene wrote:
>
> On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
> > Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the
> > "&&".
>
> I just did try that with the &q
Steve Kleene wrote:
> I should clarify that I am doing all of this from command lines under a
> window manager (fvwm). When I call startx, the first xterm's settings come
> from ~/.bash_login. But if I call more xterms from there, any settings in
> ~/.bashrc override those. This was easily verif
On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the
> "&&".
On 2011-07-26 02:39:24 GMT, I wrote:
> I just did try that with the "&&", and I still got sensible-browser whe
Steve Kleene wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, I wrote:
>
> > From my command line, I tried
> >
> > BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER
> >
> > but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and
> >
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, I wrote:
> From my command line, I tried
>
> BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER
>
> but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and
> sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and /et
On 20110725_140518, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have
> > checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser
> > defined?
>
> You might check in /etc/mai
mmand line, I tried
>
> BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER
>
> but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and
> sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and /etc/mailcap
> listed sensible-browser. I did this all with metamail, wh
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:05:18PM +, I wrote:
> You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with "text/html". I
> prefer to have iceweasel called instead of sensible-browser, so I move the
> line with sensible-browser to the end of mailcap. I often have to repe
ll the places I know of. Where is sensible browser
> > > defined?
> >
> > You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with "text/html". I
> > prefer to have iceweasel called instead of sensible-browser, so I move the
> > line with sensible-browse
> How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all
> the places I know of. Where is sensible browser defined?
These are defined in the directory /etc/alternatives. For help, see
the man page update-alternatives(8).
Mark
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:05:18PM +, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have
> > checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser
> > defined?
>
> You m
ning HTML, I am but into Iceweasel rather than
> google-chrome. I had thought the update-alternatives could fix this, but
> there is not a sensible browser name in u-a. Googling brings up only
> hits from several years ago, and only complaints, not solutions.
(...)
Have you configured
On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote:
> How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have
> checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser
> defined?
You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with "text/html". I
prefer to have icewe
ning HTML, I am but
> into Iceweasel rather than google-chrome. I had thought the
> update-alternatives could fix this, but there is not a sensible
> browser name in u-a. Googling brings up only hits from several
> years ago, and only complaints, not solutions.
>
> How do I make
the
update-alternatives could fix this, but there is not a sensible
browser name in u-a. Googling brings up only hits from several
years ago, and only complaints, not solutions.
How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have
checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CB> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:07:28AM +, i'll teach you to turn away.
wrote:
>> echo'ing it seems to run & then dump out of lynx...
CB> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file $(which sensible-browser)
CB> /usr/bin/sensibl
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:07:28AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RJ> Works for me...
> RJ> $ echo $(which sensible-browser)
> RJ> /usr/bin/sensible-browser
>
> echo'ing it seems to run &
> From the name of "Preferred Applications" I assumed that's what
> I could use to specify the default web browser. In 'Preferred
> Applications' there was a 'Internet' tab which had an entry
> from 'Web Browser' and 'Mail Reader'. The 'Web Browser'
> entry had 'iceweasel'. However, when, in 'ic
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:57:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>
> How do I add seamonkey to the list of alternatives?
update-alternatives --install seamonkey x-www-browser /path/to/seamonkey 80
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programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
> > > firing up the gnome or kde browser?
> > If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, which is not very long, you
> > see 2 things that it looks for:
> > 1) the environment variable called BROWSER
> &g
On 07/28/2007 12:50 AM, M-L wrote:
On Saturday 28 July 2007 13:57, Rick Pasotto shared this with us all:
--} The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
--} programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
--} firing up the gnome or kde browser?
[sn
g up the gnome or kde browser?
> If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, which is not very long, you
> see 2 things that it looks for:
> 1) the environment variable called BROWSER
> 2) the Debian 'alternative' www-browser and x-www-browser
> It check $BROWSER first and i
On Saturday 28 July 2007 13:57, Rick Pasotto shared this with us all:
>--} The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
>--} programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
>--} firing up the gnome or kde browser?
>--}
>--} --
>--} When in doubt. . . mu
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:57:45PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
> programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
> firing up the gnome or kde browser?
If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, whi
The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
firing up the gnome or kde browser?
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