On Friday 11 March 2005 16:07, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:39:34PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > > I have two laptops which I need to configure so that they can easily be > > switched between a location where they require a proxy to reach the > > outside world from Konqueror and one where they do not. I will have > > a set of scripts which handle the change of IP addresses (one is static > > the other dhcp) and I would like to update Konqueror as well to reflect > > the proxy requirement. The one with the proxy is the one with static > > IP addresses. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > I have konquereor configured to use the http_proxy environment > variable, and source /etc/use-proxy in my shell startup scripts and > the Xsession. /etc/use-proxy is generated by the network startup > scripts to contain the appropriate code to set the environment.
An alternative for configuration items where the application itself cannot be persuaded to use a shell environment, is this: http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#shell_expansion Cheers, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]