thufir posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:38:17 +0000 as excerpted: > in preferences, pan is set to use: > > <string name='browser-mode' value='gnome'/> > <string name='cache-file-extension' value='msg'/> > <string name='custom-browser' value='firefox'/> > <string name='custom-mailer' value='thunderbird'/> > > in preferences, pan is set to use GNOME preferences. However, clicking > on links doesn't work. What's the custom command for firefox?
Hmm. I use kde and with pan set to use kde's browser, it has always worked correctly -- including making the transition from konqueror to firefox when I switched default browsers in kde. But setting custom mode and simply setting "firefox" (without the quotes) in the text-box works just fine here, as well. Actually, I had apparently set custom/firefox at some point anyway, as when I went to check, that's what it was set at, so I had to switch it back to kde and check that still worked, then back to custom, just to be sure, but it worked either way. You can also use any of the firefox options it lists if run in a terminal window as firefox --help. I just tried firefox -new-tab , and that works as expected, instead of opening a new window, which is my normal firefox preference. If you have firefox set to open a new tab (instead of a new window) by default, presumably you could use firefox -new-window , if preferred for links opened from pan. firefox -new-instance doesn't exactly do what I wanted or expected, but it "works", if opening a dialog saying ... "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." ... can be considered "working". (IOW, firefox itself doesn't like running multiple firefox processes, and only opens the dialog saying don't do it that way, but the switch itself obviously worked. One wonders why the option is there at all, in that case, but whatever.) Same with -no-remote, except that in /that/ case, if it's the first instance and thus runs, no other firefox can be opened since it'll pop up the "not responding" dialog instead. firefox -browser is interesting. It seems to open up a new window with the home page (in my case the new-tab page with a selection of previously closed pages), as WELL as a new window with the desired URL. If none of that works for you, then try a different X-based app just to see if /it/ opens properly. Trying konsole here, it opens, just to the shell prompt, however. Trying kwrite, it opens, with the linked page opened as a text file to be edited. konsole -e links works quite well, opening the link in the links text browser in konsole, and konsole -e lynx does the same with lynx. If nothing so much as opens an X-window at all, then it's likely that the DISPLAY environmental variable isn't being exported from pan properly, perhaps because it is set for pan but not as exportable. We can tackle that in a followup, but do answer this question in that case: How do you start pan? From a menu entry, or ???. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
