Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

2022-10-04 Thread Tianyu Chen
在 2022年10月4日星期二 UTC+8 13:00:06,MaxNikulin写道: x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop; x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop; Do not forget to run update-desktop-database with a proper directory as its argument. Thanks! Changing the x-scheme-handler to google-chrome.desktop works for

Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

2022-10-03 Thread John Conover
Tianyu Chen writes: > > I'm using Google Chrome (/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome) as my default > browser, which is set by `update-alternatives` command. However my > firefox-esr is always launching when links are opened in Telegram and > Mozilla Thunderbird. > > I&

Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

2022-10-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/10/2022 11:07, Tianyu Chen wrote: I'm using Google Chrome (/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome) as my default browser, which is set by `update-alternatives` command. However my firefox-esr is always launching when links are opened in Telegram and Mozilla Thunderbird. Almost cert

Some applications don't follow default browser settings

2022-10-03 Thread Tianyu Chen
Hi all, I'm using Google Chrome (/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome) as my default browser, which is set by `update-alternatives` command. However my firefox-esr is always launching when links are opened in Telegram and Mozilla Thunderbird. I'd like to know why firefox-esr is laun

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread jindam, vani
> Hardly an issue. Just do: > $ apt -s install dbus-x11 > NOTE: This is only a simulation! > apt needs root privileges for real execution. > Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, > so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation! > Reading package lists.

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Sep 2022 at 12:42:30 (+), jindam, vani wrote: > > unicorn:~$ apt install sl > > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: > > Permission denied) > > E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), > > are you root? > so, debian on

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread David Wright
to do that. However, I don't use lynx for day-to-day browsing, so I don't want to change the /default/ BROWSER for the entire system to anything other than FireFox. Because you post so little information, I don't know whether your situation is similar to mine or not. Cheers, David.

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread jindam, vani
> unicorn:~$ apt install sl > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: > Permission denied) > E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), > are you root? so, debian on device **warns** & **refuses** to download package. without thinking t

Choice of browser? [WAS Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html]

2022-09-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:02:54AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-09-29 at 07:49, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > There are hints in this thtread as to where to configure your > > default browser. Update-alternatives is probably your friend here. If > > all of

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-09-29 at 07:49, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > There are hints in this thtread as to where to configure your > default browser. Update-alternatives is probably your friend here. If > all of this is just to run the Wikipedia cleaner application, then > you may well want a GUI brows

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
more information from you, we will continue to guess wildly. Reference to palemoon suggests to me this isn't stock Debian since stock Debian would include Firefox as default browser. There are hints in this thtread as to where to configure your default browser. Update-alternatives is prob

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread debian-user
> > That puts quite a new complexion on the thread here called > > "how disable apt downloads w/o sudo". > > It might be worth being a bit more revealing about the > > system that you're running so that you don't waste other > > people's time, and your own, with red herrings. > > as normal user

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-09-29 at 07:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:47:37AM +, jindam, vani wrote: > >> as normal user i expected apt to show **some kind** of warning >> without providing root password installation of package will fail. > > unicorn:~$ apt install sl > E: Could not open

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:47:37AM +, jindam, vani wrote: > as normal user i expected apt to show **some > kind** of warning without providing > root password installation of package > will fail. unicorn:~$ apt install sl E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: P

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread jindam, vani
> That puts quite a new complexion on the thread here called > "how disable apt downloads w/o sudo". > It might be worth being a bit more revealing about the > system that you're running so that you don't waste other > people's time, and your own, with red herrings. as normal user i expected apt t

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread jindam, vani
> Hmm. The documentation isn't great. registration is not compulsory, anybody can edit it, feel free to contribute. > If the OP can't figure this out on their own, it might be time for them > to seek help from a dedicated WPCleaner support community. People who > actually know and use the appli

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2022-09-28, David Wright wrote: > > So I think you mentioned userland.app or something. > Does that mean you're running all this on a mobile phone? > Its wikipedia says "UserLAnd does not require a root account." > That puts quite a new complexion on the thread here called > "how disable apt do

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Sep 2022 at 05:06:33 (+), jindam, vani wrote: > > A line like: > > export BROWSER=lynx > > in /etc/profile may help. > > i have updated ~/.profile, but it is not working > > > You don't indicate your desktop, which may be significant. > i am trying to use debian with least > packag

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Fred
On 9/28/22 06:01, jindam, vani wrote: So you use openbox... and what, startx? Or some Display Manager (DM)? i have installed debian on userland app. trying to use or familiarise with linux. i think i am not using any DM. Also, how are you launching your "default browser"? Please

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:35:39AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > It's apparently an application: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner Hmm. The documentation isn't great. On it says: For Mac and Linux, there's a

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-09-28 at 09:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 01:01:05PM +, jindam, vani wrote: >>> Are you clicking underlined URLs in a terminal emulator (if so, >>> which one)? Clicking links in a GUI mail user agent (if so, >>> which one)? Something else? >> >> i am trying to

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
hings you're doing would be helpful. > > Also, how are you launching your "default browser"? Please be precise > > and specific. > right clicking provides box with terminal > emulator, web browser, debian, etc.. > of openbox menu. clicking browser fails > with

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread jindam, vani
> So you use openbox... and what, startx? Or some Display Manager (DM)? i have installed debian on userland app. trying to use or familiarise with linux. i think i am not using any DM. > Also, how are you launching your "default browser"? Please be precise > and speci

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
play Manager (DM)? This matters, because the ~/.profile file will not be read if you login with a DM. Also, how are you launching your "default browser"? Please be precise and specific. Does openbox have some sort of "browser button" that launches a mystery browser? Are y

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread jindam, vani
> Try "_" (underscore) instead. That way the string "SENSIBLE_BROWSER" is > interpreted by the shell as one whole variable name. $ echo $SENSIBLE_BROWSER its blank > It ist also good to copy the command and the output completey into mails > so everybody can exactly see what happened. pearl of

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread jindam, vani
> Interesting, what does echo $"-browser" return? What does echo > "$-BROWSER" return? jindam@localhost:~$ -BROWSER -bash: -BROWSER: command not found regards, jindam, vani toots: @jindam_v...@c.im others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani > I'm on a system other than debian now otherwise

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2022 schrieb jindam, vani: > > It may be necessary to disable SENSIBLE-BROWSER. echo > > $SENSIBLE-BROWSER to see if it's loaded. > > $ echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER > it shows "-BROWSER" Shell variables can't contain "-", so this is probably a typo. Then the shell replaces "$

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Stefan Krusche
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2022 schrieb Jude DaShiell: > Interesting, what does echo $"-browser" return?  What does echo > "$-BROWSER" return? > I'm on a system other than debian now otherwise I'd have answers for > you on both counts. $ echo "$-browser" himBHsbrowser $ echo "$-BROWSER" himBHsBRO

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Interesting, what does echo $"-browser" return? What does echo "$-BROWSER" return? I'm on a system other than debian now otherwise I'd have answers for you on both counts. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread jindam, vani
September 28, 2022 at 12:22 PM, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > > It may be necessary to disable SENSIBLE-BROWSER. echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER > to see if it's loaded. $ echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER it shows "-BROWSER" $SENSIBLE-BROWSER launches lynx in terminal regards, jindam, vani toots: @jindam_v...@c.im

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may be necessary to disable SENSIBLE-BROWSER. echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER to see if it's loaded. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote: > >

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-27 Thread jindam, vani
> A line like: > export BROWSER=lynx > in /etc/profile may help. i have updated ~/.profile, but it is not working > You don't indicate your desktop, which may be significant. i am trying to use debian with least packages. i dont have any desktop environment. i have installed base system + mc,

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:23:27 + "jindam, vani" wrote: > i have installed debian bullseye on userland > app. i have disabled recomnend packages for my > entire packages. i have installed openbox. when > i click "web browser" it does not launch > "lynx browser". i have changed x-www-browser

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
- > * 0/usr/bin/lynx 50auto mode > 1/usr/bin/lynx 50manual mode > 2/usr/bin/palemoon 40manual mode > > p.s. > * after reading couple of online resources, i > thought best to ask here, bcoz upda

how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-27 Thread jindam, vani
sr/bin/palemoon 40manual mode p.s. * after reading couple of online resources, i thought best to ask here, bcoz update-alternatives seems to be debian way * i did ask @ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-do-i-configure-lynx-browser-as-default-browser-for-all-html-relat

Firefox insists to be default browser ...

2022-02-17 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, After the recent upgrade of Firefox and Thunderbird in oldoldstable (Mate desktop), about a month ago or so, when the versions changed from 60-something to 90-something, Firefox annoyingly keeps asking me to be the default browser, even though I always respond to that asking by click

[SOLVED] Re: Default browser settings muddle

2021-04-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:00:54 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: Hello All, >I've finally settled on a browser, but some apps, when they call the >browser, open a page such as; >file:///home/brad/.cache/kioexec/krun/49841_0/somepageorother >rather than >http://url.of.website/somepageorother >The number in

Default browser settings muddle

2021-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
Hello, I've recently been trying a few different browsers altering default browser settings via KDE/Plasma settings software. I've finally settled on a browser, but some apps, when they call the browser, open a page such as; file:///home/brad/.cache/kioexec/krun/49841_0/somepageorot

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 31 May 2014 12:22:55 +0200 David Dušanić wrote: > 30.05.2014, 18:10, "Steve Litt" : > > > > > Anyone know how to change the default browser on JWM? > > You could use Debian's alternative system: > > update-alternatives --config x-ww

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-31 Thread Steve Litt
gt; dmenu_run, changed the active window to have a red border, and a > > lot of other stuff, but I can find no way to change the default > > browser, and Google didn't help. Right now it defaults to Arora, > > and I want it to default to xxxterm. > > > > A

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-31 Thread David Dušanić
30.05.2014, 18:10, "Steve Litt" : > > Anyone know how to change the default browser on JWM? You could use Debian's alternative system: update-alternatives --config x-www-browser as root and choose your option. -- David Dusanic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-30 Thread Linux-Fan
r stuff, but I can find no way to change the default browser, and > Google didn't help. Right now it defaults to Arora, and I want it to > default to xxxterm. > > Anyone know how to change the default browser on JWM? > > Thanks, > > SteveT I would try update-alterna

How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, After installing JWM, I copied /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc to ~/.jwmrc and changed the window close hotkey, added a Shift+Ctrl+; key to invoke dmenu_run, changed the active window to have a red border, and a lot of other stuff, but I can find no way to change the default browser, and Google

Re: chrome as default browser in KDE

2013-08-10 Thread Dick Thoms
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/13 14:55, Kruppt wrote: > On 2013-08-10, Dick Thoms wrote: >> Hello, >> before I star, I can't use gnome or xfce for technical reasons beyond >> the scope this question and I would rather use gnome, but I can't so >> Have to use KDE >> >> >>

Re: chrome as default browser in KDE

2013-08-10 Thread Kruppt
On 2013-08-10, Dick Thoms wrote: > Hello, > before I star, I can't use gnome or xfce for technical reasons beyond > the scope this question and I would rather use gnome, but I can't so > Have to use KDE > > > I've installed chrome as my browser in KDE > and I've been unable to set Chrome as the de

Re: chrome as default browser in KDE (solved)

2013-08-10 Thread Dick Thoms
On 10/08/13 11:37, Dick Thoms wrote: > Hello, > before I star, I can't use gnome or xfce for technical reasons beyond > the scope this question and I would rather use gnome, but I can't so > Have to use KDE > > > I've installed chrome as my browser in KDE > and I've been unable to set Chrome a

chrome as default browser in KDE

2013-08-10 Thread Dick Thoms
Hello, before I star, I can't use gnome or xfce for technical reasons beyond the scope this question and I would rather use gnome, but I can't so Have to use KDE I've installed chrome as my browser in KDE and I've been unable to set Chrome as the default I've tried Settings/Default and set that

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-21 Thread Camaleón
e > noticed that before and wondered whether that's a standard KDE function. Links are also displayed in console terminals and many other GUI based apps (like IM, SIP, RSS...). In addition, you can find yourself in a situation where you have to open plain "*.html" files located in

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 20/04/12 22:00, Gary Dale wrote: Within KDE, you can go into System Settings | File Associations | Text to change the default application for html files. On my system, it was set to Konqueror, so I changed it to Iceweasel. System Settings | Default Applications also lets you change the defaul

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/04/12 03:20 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 20/04/12 17:50, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: Try with "update-alternatives" but remember the leading "x". I found that I could tell icedove to Use firefox for h

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 20/04/12 17:50, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: Try with "update-alternatives" but remember the leading "x". I found that I could tell icedove to Use firefox for http and https links and that solved the problem

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:43:30 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> >>> When I clicked on an http link in an email message in icedove, firefox >>> was started and the link appeared on a tab. >> >> Fine.

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
d installed the contents of the tarball in /usr/local/share/firefox. I then put a link to the firefox binary in my own binary directory which is on my PATH. I then clicked on KDE Settings->System Settings->Default Applications and made sure that firefox was the default browser. Then I logged

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
d the contents of the tarball in > /usr/local/share/firefox. I then put a link to the firefox binary in my > own binary directory which is on my PATH. > > I then clicked on KDE Settings->System Settings->Default Applications > and made sure that firefox was the default browser. T

siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem

2012-04-19 Thread Sian Mountbatten
->System Settings->Default Applications and made sure that firefox was the default browser. Then I logged out in case that was needed. Now, when I click on a link in an email message in icedove, nothing happens. No web-browser loaded. I noticed that /etc/alternatives/www-browser pointed t

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 14 oct 10, 08:01:06, Camaleón wrote: > > Mozilla applications handle those things based on their own stuff/code > (mime types, network protocols... are all in charge of Firefox/ > Thunderbird). > > On linux systems that causes a bit of mess because every desktop > environment (GNOME, KD

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:18:34 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2010 13:34:54 Klistvud wrote: > > Dne, 14. 10. 2010 14:19:25 je Gilbert Sullivan napisal(a): > > > On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > > > > > You certainly are useful to have around! > > > > +1 > > > > And ind

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:18:34 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2010 13:34:54 Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 14. 10. 2010 14:19:25 je Gilbert Sullivan napisal(a): >> > On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> >> > You certainly are useful to have around! >> >> +1 >> >> And indefatigable

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 14 October 2010 13:34:54 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 14. 10. 2010 14:19:25 je Gilbert Sullivan napisal(a): > > On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > You certainly are useful to have around! > > +1 > > And indefatigable too -- keeping this list chuggling even at 04:01 AM! +1 I

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 14. 10. 2010 14:19:25 je Gilbert Sullivan napisal(a): On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: You certainly are useful to have around! +1 And indefatigable too -- keeping this list chuggling even at 04:01 AM! -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflo

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:15:10 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Why on earth would the Mozilla people set the mail client to behave this way? Mozilla applications handle those things based on their own stuff/code (mime types, network protocols... are all in

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
icedove and iceweasel recognize my choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind of irks me! Have you tried by setting in Icedove "about:config" the variables... - "network.protocol-handler.app.http" pointing to the Chromium binary path? - "netw

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:15:10 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Lisi wrote: (...) >> I have had a look on his computer, and Iceweasel has indeed got >> about:config as it should, and as I would expect. But I can't find any >> such thing in Icedove. Where should I be looki

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:16:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my &

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-14 Thread Lisi
>>> Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my > >>> choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind > >>> of irks me! > >> > >> Have you tried by setting in Icedove "about:config&quo

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > (...) > > > Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my > > choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, bu

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) > Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my > choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind > of irks me! Have you tried by setting in Icedove "about:config&

icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
launched. If I go into iceweasel preferences and click the "check now" button, it tells me that iceweasel is already the default browser -- this despite the fact that the "make iceweasel the default browser" checkbox is unchecked, and chromium-browser is set in Xfce's prefe

Re: How to change Icedove default browser? (Solved)

2008-12-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sven Joachim wrote the following on 12/21/2008 07:46 AM: On 2008-12-21 14:35 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Icedove is using the Gnome(?) browser and I want to use Iceweasel. I found a post from 2007 that said to use "update-alternatives --config x-www-browser" but although that "worke

Re: How to change Icedove default browser?

2008-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-21 14:35 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Icedove is using the Gnome(?) browser and I want to use Iceweasel. > > I found a post from 2007 that said to use "update-alternatives > --config x-www-browser" > but although that "worked" it didn't work, even though I bounced > Icedo

How to change Icedove default browser?

2008-12-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Icedove is using the Gnome(?) browser and I want to use Iceweasel. I found a post from 2007 that said to use "update-alternatives --config x-www-browser" but although that "worked" it didn't work, even though I bounced Icedove. And I can't find any thing about wihich browser Ice

Re: Default browser

2007-08-12 Thread Wei Wang
Click Desktop/Preferences/Preferred Applications Select your preferred web browser or other preferred applicatons. On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 16:35 +1200, Jeff wrote: > Using Iceweasel as my browser in Etch but when i open a link it opens in > Epiphany. Have checked Iceweasel in Preferred Applications

Re: Default browser(Problem fixed)

2007-08-11 Thread Jeff
Thanks for the reply. Problem has been fixed now. Jeff -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/07 23:35, Jeff wrote: Using Iceweasel as my browser in Etch but when i open a link it opens in Epiphany. Have checked Iceweasel in Preferred Applications but still opens in Epiphany!

Re: Default browser

2007-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/07 23:35, Jeff wrote: > Using Iceweasel as my browser in Etch but when i open a link it opens in > Epiphany. Have checked Iceweasel in Preferred Applications but still > opens in Epiphany! How do Make it open in Iceweasel? What DE and applic

Default browser

2007-08-10 Thread Jeff
Using Iceweasel as my browser in Etch but when i open a link it opens in Epiphany. Have checked Iceweasel in Preferred Applications but still opens in Epiphany! How do Make it open in Iceweasel? Thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: gnome default browser

2007-06-15 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Therning escreveu: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:12:42 -0700, liviu wrote: >> hello >> sorry for getting your time but i have a small >> problem >> i have debian 4.0 installed and using the iceweasel as default brows

Re: gnome default browser

2007-06-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:12:42 -0700, liviu wrote: >hello > sorry for getting your time but i have a small >problem >i have debian 4.0 installed and using the iceweasel as default browser >but when im using for example kopete or gaim and i use go to imbox or >clik on a lin

gnome default browser

2007-06-14 Thread liviu
hello sorry for getting your time but i have a small problem i have debian 4.0 installed and using the iceweasel as default browser but when im using for example kopete or gaim and i use go to imbox or clik on a link always start the epiphany insted of iceweasel i do the sudo update-alternatives

Re: [SOLVED] Re: selecting default browser under icedove

2007-06-10 Thread William Pursell
andy wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:48:48 +0100, andy wrote: I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, but it launches Konqueror instead. See Arthur Marsh's recent message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.h

[SOLVED] Re: selecting default browser under icedove

2007-06-10 Thread andy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:48:48 +0100, andy wrote: Hi all I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't seen anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced c

Re: selecting default browser under icedove

2007-06-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:48, andy wrote: > Hi all > > I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external > browser, but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't > seen anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced > configuration/browsers section,

Re: selecting default browser under icedove

2007-06-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:48:48 +0100, andy wrote: > Hi all > > I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, > but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't seen > anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced > configuration/brow

selecting default browser under icedove

2007-06-10 Thread andy
Hi all I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser, but it launches Konqueror instead. Under preferences, I haven't seen anything obvious to select this behaviour, and under advanced configuration/browsers section, references are to Netscape (?). I am sure that

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 05:30 -0700, Michael M. wrote: > If you make sure your alternatives settings are correct for > "x-www-browser" and "gnome-www-browser," and you still get the "I'm not > the default browser" message from Iceweasel, then I would gue

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-18 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 10:27 +0100, Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: > Michael M. schrieb: > > So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the > > default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does > > update-alternatives report? > > Okay,

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: >> Michael M. schrieb: >>> So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the >>> default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does >>>

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: > Michael M. schrieb: >> So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the >> default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does >> update-alternatives report? > >

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
Roman Stöckl-Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael M. schrieb: > > So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the > > default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does > > update-alternatives report? > > Okay, I&#

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-17 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Michael M. schrieb: So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does update-alternatives report? Okay, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or whatever it's called in engli

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-15 Thread Michael M.
t; wanted to set it as the default browser. Since the previous version had > been my default browser and I intend to keep it that way I was surprised > by the prompt, but confirmed it anyway. Now the strange thing is that it > keeps aksing the question every time it start it, stating that i

iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-15 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Hi guys! I've got a really strange behaviour in iceweasel since upgrading to the newest package in etch (2.0.0.2+dfsg-3). When I ran it for the first time after upgrading it asked wether I wanted to set it as the default browser. Since the previous version had been my default browser

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
cothrige wrote: * Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple of things that kopete doesn't. I tried this, but it is not working. It installed okay, and opens, but the left hand pane, where one would expect to see

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-14 Thread cothrige
* Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple > of things that kopete doesn't. I tried this, but it is not working. It installed okay, and opens, but the left hand pane, where one would expect to see the menus and choice

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/13/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or > somesuch) that may need an adjustment. > I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them all just in ca

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread cothrige
* Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or > somesuch) that may need an adjustment. > I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them all just in case. I find the same result for gnome-www-browse

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
ome long > enough to open the control center there and set firefox as default, > but it did not work. I opened firefox and had it check for whether it > was the default browser, and then made is such, but this also had no > effect. > > After reading the man page and some online he

Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread cothrige
t work. I opened firefox and had it check for whether it was the default browser, and then made is such, but this also had no effect. After reading the man page and some online helps, I tried 'update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox' but I still get epiphany. When I run

Re: how to set firefox default browser in gnome

2006-07-31 Thread Yuwen Dai
> 2. in thunderbird, when I click a URL, it still opens epiphany.user_pref(" network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");place this lines in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/__your_profile__/prefs.js Thanks.  This works.Dai

Re: how to set firefox default browser in gnome

2006-07-31 Thread Alejandro Bárcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > What's the correct way to set firefox default browser in gnome? > > There're several places you can click a link: > 1. in Emacs wiki mode. I add these these lines in > ~/.gno

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