Package: debianutils
Version: 2.30
Severity: normal
Invoking sensible-browser when DISLPAY is set but
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator doesn't exist fails to spawn a browser, but
yields the following error instead:
% sensible-browser
Couldn't find a suitable web browser!
Set the BROWSER environment variable to your desired browser.
This situation occurs when I invoke sensible-browser (from mutt) over an
ssh session to a remote machine that doesn't have a terminal emulator
installed. DISPLAY is set because of ssh X forwarding.
>From /usr/bin/sensible-browser:
if test -n "$DISPLAY"; then
if test -n "$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID"; then
if test -x /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser "$URL"
elif test -x /usr/bin/x-www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/x-www-browser "$URL"
elif test -x /usr/bin/gnome-terminal && test -x /usr/bin/www-browser;
then
exec /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -e "/usr/bin/www-browser \"$URL\""
fi
fi
if test -x /usr/bin/x-www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/x-www-browser "$URL"
elif test -x /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator && test -x
/usr/bin/www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e /usr/bin/www-browser "$URL"
fi
elif test -x /usr/bin/www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/www-browser "$URL"
fi
- DISPLAY is localhost:10.0
- GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID is unset
- /usr/bin/x-www-browser does not exist
- /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator does not exist
Always executing /usr/bin/www-browser if it exists would prevent this
problem from occurring:
if test -n "$DISPLAY"; then
if test -n "$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID"; then
if test -x /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser "$URL"
elif test -x /usr/bin/x-www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/x-www-browser "$URL"
elif test -x /usr/bin/gnome-terminal && test -x /usr/bin/www-browser;
then
exec /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -e "/usr/bin/www-browser \"$URL\""
fi
fi
if test -x /usr/bin/x-www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/x-www-browser "$URL"
elif test -x /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator && test -x
/usr/bin/www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -e /usr/bin/www-browser "$URL"
fi
fi
if test -x /usr/bin/www-browser; then
exec /usr/bin/www-browser "$URL"
fi
Kind regards,
Marcel Moreaux
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
debianutils recommends no packages.
debianutils suggests no packages.
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