Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

[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 me!
Tianyu Chen

Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

[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'd like to know why firefox-esr is launching, and how can i switch to 
> Chrome? I'm not gonna removing my Firefox :(
>

Setting the default programs is kind of a mess, and there are two
methods, which must agree, else conflicts occur:

update-alternatives --set gnome-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto thunderbird.desktop

The names of your programs may be different, be sure to check the executable
names for google-chrome and thunderbird.

Also, if you are using XFCE:

Applications->Settings->Default Applications

has to agree with the above settings, too.

John

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Re: Some applications don't follow default browser settings

[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 certainly Thunderbird ignores alternatives, mailcap and queries 
XDG settings from mimeapps.list, mimeinfo.cache files



     $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
     google-chrome.desktop


xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https

or
xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http
that likely invokes xdg-mime


     $ cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list
     [Default Applications]
     x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-ZS5OS1.desktop
     text/html=google-chrome.desktop


My guess is that when applications are going to open a link, MIME type 
is not known yet, so scheme handler is queried. Likely you miss the 
following associations in the [Default Applications] section:


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.

Some applications don't follow default browser settings

[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 launching, and how can i switch to 
Chrome? I'm not gonna removing my Firefox :(


Some information attached:

    $ readlink -f /usr/bin/x-www-browser
    /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

    $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
    google-chrome.desktop

    $ cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list
    [Default Applications]
    x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-ZS5OS1.desktop
    text/html=google-chrome.desktop

    [Added Associations]
    x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-ZS5OS1.desktop;
    text/html=google-chrome.desktop;


Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Tianyu Chen

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

[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... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   dbus-x11
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Inst dbus-x11 (1.12.20-2 Debian:11.5/stable [amd64])
> Conf dbus-x11 (1.12.20-2 Debian:11.5/stable [amd64])

> Sometimes it's worth thinking twice.

i do understand thats the above command 
merely simulates, but not install.

my output is also same, strange.
jindam@localhost:~$ 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 situat
ion!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dbus-x11
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst dbus-x11 (1.12.20-2 Debian:11.5/stable [armhf])
Conf dbus-x11 (1.12.20-2 Debian:11.5/stable [armhf])

regards,
jindam, vani

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

[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 device **warns** & **refuses** 
> to download package.
> without thinking twice created an 
> issue at upstream (1).
> 
> (1) https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd-Assets-Debian/issues/31

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... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dbus-x11
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst dbus-x11 (1.12.20-2 Debian:11.5/stable [amd64])
Conf dbus-x11 (1.12.20-2 Debian:11.5/stable [amd64])
$ 

Sometimes it's worth thinking twice.

Cheers,
David.

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

[David Wright]

On Wed 28 Sep 2022 at 17:01:41 (+), jindam, vani wrote:
> > 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 application might be able to answer questions
> > about it, like "how do you configure which web browser it launches
> > when you press the XYZ button on the ABC page".
> i did ask dev & it was fixed for palemoon.
> if XYZ button contains url, so instead of 
> choosing default configured package (lynx), 
> but depends on the package (wpcleaner) 
> config. strange...

It seems reasonable to me.

If I were using WPCleaner for what I suggested earlier,
I'd want it to open wiki pages in lynx, so that I could
check them; I'd set WPCleaner to use lynx as its browser.

As it happens, I do set up lynx as the browser that mutt
uses for reading HTML emails, mainly because of its
-localhost option. I configure mutt with its own mailcap
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

[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 twice created an 
issue at upstream (1).

(1) https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd-Assets-Debian/issues/31

regards,
jindam, vani

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

[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 this is just to run the Wikipedia cleaner application, then
> > you may well want a GUI browser anyway to check how it looks to
> > others in a GUI.
> 
> To be fair, it used to be - and, by some lights, still is - good
> practice to test a Website in multiple types of browser to make sure it
> works to a suitable standard in all of them.
> 
> I certainly wouldn't want to discourage people from including text-mode
> Web browsers in that type of testing.
> 

Hi Wanderer,

Yes, absolutely: as someone peripherally involved in accessibility and
disability, this is completely correct and desirable. If lynx is the 
only text-mode browser you test, that's fine - links and elinks also
exist and may produce different results. If you yourself are constrained to 
use a text mode browser for other reasons, then you are already very
aware that a graphical browser may be very different.

Wikipedia is fairly heavily formatted, as are most wikis so it shouldn't
make a lot of difference.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater

> -- 
>The Wanderer
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
> 

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

[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 browser anyway to check how it looks to
> others in a GUI. (On the assumption that you are not otherwise
> dependent on a text-mode browser for web accessibility needs.)

To be fair, it used to be - and, by some lights, still is - good
practice to test a Website in multiple types of browser to make sure it
works to a suitable standard in all of them.

I certainly wouldn't want to discourage people from including text-mode
Web browsers in that type of testing.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw



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

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:47:37AM +, jindam, vani wrote:
> > 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 to show **some 
> kind** of warning without providing 
> root password installation of package 
> will fail.
> 
> > It's conceivable that Debian on Userland on Android might not function
> > quite in the manner to which we are accustomed. Then again, who knows?
> 
>

If this is not stock Debian - if it's running inside Android, if it's another
packaged Debian variant - essentially, we can't help you. Without 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 probably your friend here. If all of this
is just to run the Wikipedia cleaner application, then you may well want a
GUI browser anyway to check how it looks to others in a GUI. (On the assumption
that you are not otherwise dependent on a text-mode browser for web 
accessibility needs.)

With every good wish, as ever,

Andy Cater  

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

[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 i expected apt to show **some 
> kind** of warning without providing 
> root password installation of package 
> will fail.
> 
> > It's conceivable that Debian on Userland on Android might not
> > function quite in the manner to which we are accustomed. Then
> > again, who knows?  
> 
> again as normal user: i expect os to 
> behave same, especially when you configure 
> or make a package as default, in my case 
> all html links whether present in gui 
> or cli OR apt stopping without root 
> password.

That may or may not be a reasonable expectation but regardless, if
debian on userland is behaving differently to 'native' debian then you
need to discuss your concerns with whatever userland support facilities
there are, not here on the debian list.

> regards,
> jindam, vani
> 
> toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

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

[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 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?
> 
> Are you even being serious at this point?  I'm getting major troll vibes
> now.

From the context of the post (the Android "Userland" app, or whatever
it's actually called, I haven't gone looking for it), I infer that when
Debian is installed inside of such an app, apt may behave differently in
this regard - possibly because that app handles its permissions
differently from what will be seen either on real hardware or on a
proper hypervisor.

Which, if true, would turn this into another case of someone expecting
too much of a tool. We could debate about what is and is not reasonable
for apt to do in order to detect whether or not it's root, and beyond
that, whether or not it'd be reasonable for apt to refuse to make
changes if run as non-root but with write access to the relevant
locations - but I don't think there'd be very much point to such a
debate.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw



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

[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: Permission 
denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are 
you root?

Are you even being serious at this point?  I'm getting major troll vibes
now.

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

[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 to show **some 
kind** of warning without providing 
root password installation of package 
will fail.

> It's conceivable that Debian on Userland on Android might not function
> quite in the manner to which we are accustomed. Then again, who knows?

again as normal user: i expect os to 
behave same, especially when you configure 
or make a package as default, in my case 
all html links whether present in gui 
or cli OR apt stopping without root 
password.

regards,
jindam, vani

toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

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

[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 application might be able to answer questions
> about it, like "how do you configure which web browser it launches
> when you press the XYZ button on the ABC page".
i did ask dev & it was fixed for palemoon.
if XYZ button contains url, so instead of 
choosing default configured package (lynx), 
but depends on the package (wpcleaner) 
config. strange...

regards,
jindam, vani

toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

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

[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 downloads w/o sudo".
>

Userland is an open source app for running Linux on an Android device.
It's in the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula=en_US=PL

It's conceivable that Debian on Userland on Android might not function
quite in the manner to which we are accustomed. Then again, who knows?

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

[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 
> packages. i dont have any desktop 
> environment. i have installed base system 
> + mc, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.

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 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.

Next, openbox. A couple of clicks gets me to:

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started

which bears a link to:

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart

(in §Using Openbox without a desktop environment (The
lightweight approach)).

Have you read that? Our guesses based on a standard Debian
configuration won't get you very far.

It also has a section called "Starting Openbox without
the graphical log in". Have you read that? You could
save a lot of back and forth by posting more detail,
and you'll get better advice before people give up
bothering with your problem.

So you run WPCleaner; I take it that is a graphical application.
Are you running lynx to check that its display of some wiki
conforms to expectations. Again, it might help to reveal this.

> my cli:
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
> /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> /etc/alternatives/www-browser
> /etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz
> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> 
> /usr/bin/lynx
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 
> /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser )
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13  2021 /usr/bin/sensible-browser

Cheers,
David.

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

[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 be precise
and specific.

right clicking provides box with terminal
emulator, web browser, debian, etc..
of openbox menu. clicking browser fails
with message "failed to execute child
process "x-www-browser" (no such file
or directory). my issue is not with this
message.


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 launch browser button
on wikipedia wpcleaner. it was working for
palemoon.



I also find it quite strange that you're inter-mixing GUI and terminal web 
browsers (e.g. palemoon and lynx) and thinking
that you can drop one of them into a configuration slot that expects the other.

so, i am mixing things.

my assumption of configuring a default
browser will not work w/o some kind of
wrapper on linux.

regards,
jindam, vani

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others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

The (right click) openbox menu comes from an .xml file in 
$HOME/.config/openbox.  You can edit this so the menu entries will start 
the programs you want.  The default menu.xml probably is defferent from 
what you want.


Best regards,
Fred

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

[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 preference file for WPCleaner that can
  be copied over to another computer that uses Linux or Mac.

Um... OK, great.  WHERE is that file?  What's it called?

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 application might be able to answer questions
about it, like "how do you configure which web browser it launches
when you press the XYZ button on the ABC page".

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

[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 launch browser button on wikipedia wpcleaner. it was
>> working for palemoon.
> 
> I have no idea what "wikipedia wpcleaner" is either.  Is it an
> application that you installed?  Does it have its own configuration
> menu/files, or does it have instructions for how to configure which
> browser it launches?

It's apparently an application:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner

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

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 01:01:05PM +, jindam, vani wrote:
> > So you use openbox... and what, startx?  Or some Display Manager (DM)?
> i have installed debian on userland app.

I don't know what that means.  Is that some sort of virtualization
environment?  Are you running Debian as a "guest OS" inside of some
other OS?

Under normal operation, Debian is booted directly by your machine's
firmware/BIOS.  The Linux kernel is executed with various parameters by
the boot loader (GRUB or equivalent).  The Linux kernel probes hardware,
then launches the Debian userspace software suite.

Once booting is completed, under normal operation, you will either be on
a text console, with a login: prompt (white text on a black background
usually), OR you will be in a graphical environment, with some sort of
GUI login window.

That GUI login window is called a Display Manager.

If you don't have one of those -- if you login directly on the text
console -- then you would usually run the "startx" command in order to
launch the X11 graphical environment, with openbox and so on.

The question was which one of these you're doing -- startx, or a GUI login.

If your "userland app" bypasses BOTH of these and does some sort of
"autologin" (where you never type your username or password, but instead
just go directly into a GUI environment, like a kiosk mode), then that's
a third possibility.

Knowing which of these things 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 message "failed to execute child 
> process "x-www-browser" (no such file 
> or directory). my issue is not with this 
> message.

x-www-browser is managed by Debian's alternatives system.

unicorn:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jan 12  2018 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> 
/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable*

You can configure this, to get that menu option to work.  I believe
other people have already discussed the "update-alternatives" command.

> > 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 launch browser button 
> on wikipedia wpcleaner. it was working for 
> palemoon.

I have no idea what "wikipedia wpcleaner" is either.  Is it an application
that you installed?  Does it have its own configuration menu/files, or
does it have instructions for how to configure which browser it launches?

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

[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 specific.
right clicking provides box with terminal 
emulator, web browser, debian, etc.. 
of openbox menu. clicking browser fails 
with message "failed to execute child 
process "x-www-browser" (no such file 
or directory). my issue is not with this 
message.

> 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 launch browser button 
on wikipedia wpcleaner. it was working for 
palemoon.


> I also find it quite strange that you're inter-mixing GUI and terminal web 
> browsers (e.g. palemoon and lynx) and thinking 
> that you can drop one of them into a configuration slot that expects the 
> other.
so, i am mixing things.

my assumption of configuring a default 
browser will not work w/o some kind of 
wrapper on linux.

regards,
jindam, vani

toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

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

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:06:33AM +, jindam, vani wrote:
> i am trying to use debian with least 
> packages. i dont have any desktop 
> environment. i have installed base system 
> + mc, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.

So you use openbox... and what, startx?  Or some Display 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 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?

The sad fact is that Linux does not *have* a single unified concept of
a "default web browser" the way some other operating systems might.
Each individual Desktop Environment or application therefore has its *own*
concept of "default browser" and its own way of launching it.

I also find it quite strange that you're inter-mixing GUI and terminal
web browsers (e.g. palemoon and lynx) and thinking that you can drop one
of them into a configuration slot that expects the other.  Trying to
launch lynx (for example) from a GUI environment without being inside
a terminal emulator is going to fail.

If you need to launch lynx from that kind of environment, you might need
to write a wrapper script that looks something like:

#!/bin/sh
exec xterm -e lynx "$@"

... and then choose that wrapper script as your GUI web browser, in
whatever configuration thing you're working with.

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

[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 wisdom, must always remember.

regards,
jindam, vani

toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

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

[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 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 Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> 
> .
> 
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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"
> > 
> >  $SENSIBLE-BROWSER
> >  launches lynx in terminal
> > 
> >  regards,
> >  jindam, vani
> > 
> >  toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> >  others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
> > 
> >  Jude  "There are four boxes to be used in
> >  defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >  -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> > 
> >  .
> > 
> >  On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote:
> > 
> >  >
> >  > A line like:
> >  > export BROWSER=lynx
> >  > in /etc/profile may help.
> >  >
> >  > i have updated ~/.profile, but it is not working
> >  >
> >  > You don't indicate your desktop, which may be significant.
> >  > i am trying to use debian with least
> >  > packages. i dont have any desktop
> >  > environment. i have installed base system
> >  > + mc, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.
> >  >
> >  > my cli:
> >  > jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
> >  > /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> >  > /etc/alternatives/www-browser
> >  > /etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz
> >  > /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> >  > jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> >  > lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-ww
> >  > w-browser -> /usr/bin/lynx
> >  > jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> >  > lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 /etc/alternatives/gnom
> >  > e-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon
> >  > jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser )
> >  > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13 2021 /usr/bin/sensible-br
> >  > owser
> >  >
> >  > regards,
> >  > jindam, vani
> >  >
> >  > toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> >  > others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
> >  >
> >
>

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

[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 "$SENSIBLE" with nothing because it is not set and 
prints the string "-BROWSER".

$ echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER
-BROWSER

Try "_" (underscore) instead. That way the string "SENSIBLE_BROWSER" is 
interpreted by the shell as one whole variable name.

$ echo $SENSIBLE_BROWSER



It ist also good to copy the command and the output completey into mails 
so everybody can exactly see what happened.

HTH

Kind regards,
Stefan

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

[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"
himBHsBROWSER

$ echo "$-"
himBHs

Same explanation as in my previous mail: "$-" is a shell variable 
containing the options with which the shell has been invoked. "BROWSER" 
or "browser" remain as a string. Both gets printed.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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

[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 Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote:

> 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"
>
> $SENSIBLE-BROWSER
> launches lynx in terminal
>
> regards,
> jindam, vani
>
> toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
>
> >
> > Jude  "There are four boxes to be used in
> > defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >
> > .
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A line like:
> > >  export BROWSER=lynx
> > >  in /etc/profile may help.
> > >
> > >  i have updated ~/.profile, but it is not working
> > >
> > >  You don't indicate your desktop, which may be significant.
> > >  i am trying to use debian with least
> > >  packages. i dont have any desktop
> > >  environment. i have installed base system
> > >  + mc, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.
> > >
> > >  my cli:
> > >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
> > >  /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> > >  /etc/alternatives/www-browser
> > >  /etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz
> > >  /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> > >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> > >  lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-ww
> > >  w-browser -> /usr/bin/lynx
> > >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> > >  lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 /etc/alternatives/gnom
> > >  e-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon
> > >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser )
> > >  -rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13 2021 /usr/bin/sensible-br
> > >  owser
> > >
> > >  regards,
> > >  jindam, vani
> > >
> > >  toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> > >  others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
> > >
> >
>
>

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

[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
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

> 
> 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:
> 
> > 
> > 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, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.
> > 
> >  my cli:
> >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
> >  /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> >  /etc/alternatives/www-browser
> >  /etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz
> >  /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> >  lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-ww
> >  w-browser -> /usr/bin/lynx
> >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> >  lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 /etc/alternatives/gnom
> >  e-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon
> >  jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser )
> >  -rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13 2021 /usr/bin/sensible-br
> >  owser
> > 
> >  regards,
> >  jindam, vani
> > 
> >  toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> >  others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
> >
>

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

[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:

> > 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, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.
>
> my cli:
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
> /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> /etc/alternatives/www-browser
> /etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz
> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-ww
> w-browser -> /usr/bin/lynx
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 /etc/alternatives/gnom
> e-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon
> jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser )
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13  2021 /usr/bin/sensible-br
> owser
>
> regards,
> jindam, vani
>
> toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
>
>

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

[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, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx.

my cli:
jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
/etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
/etc/alternatives/www-browser
/etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz
/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-ww
w-browser -> /usr/bin/lynx
jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 /etc/alternatives/gnom
e-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon
jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser )
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13  2021 /usr/bin/sensible-br
owser

regards,
jindam, vani

toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

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

[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 
> to lynx. how do i configure my system to 
> use lynx browser for html files, open links, 
> open in external viewer, etc..?

You don't indicate your desktop, which may be significant.

For one thing, there may be other alternatives you might need to set:

root@jhegaala:~# ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser*
/etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser  /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
root@jhegaala:~# ll /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 10  2021 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> 
/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable*
root@jhegaala:~# ll /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 10  2021 /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser -> 
/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable*
root@jhegaala:~#

In addition, XFCE (which I use) has its Default Applications app
separate from alternatives. Right click on the desktop -> Applications
-> Settings -> Default Applications Your desktop will likely have some
such.

And there is also the Debian sensible browser.

root@jhegaala:~# ll $(which sensible-browser )
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1230 Jan 12  2021 /usr/bin/sensible-browser*
root@jhegaala:~# file $(which sensible-browser )
/usr/bin/sensible-browser: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable

It depends in part on the BROWSER environment variable, which on my
system is not set. It manages to produce Vivaldi.

There is one I haven't figured out yet. If you mouse over a URL in
xfce4-terminal, the terminal will underline the URL. Right click, and
the menu will offer to open the link. On my system, that still brings up
Netscape.

And there are probably other ways to launch a browser I haven't yet
stumbled across.

-- 
Does anybody read signatures any more?

https://charlescurley.com
https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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

[Jude DaShiell]

A line like:
export BROWSER=lynx
in /etc/profile may help.



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:

> hello debian-users,
>
> good morning !?!?!
>
> 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
> to lynx. how do i configure my system to
> use lynx browser for html files, open links,
> open in external viewer, etc..?
>
> $sudo update-alternatives --config www-browser
> There is only one alternative in link group www-browser (providing 
> /usr/bin/www-browser): /usr/bin/lynx
> Nothing to configure.
>
>
> $ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> /usr/bin/lynx
> /usr/bin/palemoon
>
>
> $ update-alternatives --get-selections | grep browser
> gnome-www-browser  auto /usr/bin/palemoon
> www-browserauto /usr/bin/lynx
> x-www-browser  auto /usr/bin/lynx
>
> $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser 
> /usr/bin/lynx 50
> update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lynx to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser 
> (x-www-browser) in auto mode
> jindam@localhost:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing 
> /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
>
>   SelectionPath   Priority   Status
> 
> * 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 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-related-things-4175717193/
>
> regards,
> jindam, vani
>
> toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
> others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani
>
>

how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

[jindam, vani]

hello debian-users,

good morning !?!?!

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 
to lynx. how do i configure my system to 
use lynx browser for html files, open links, 
open in external viewer, etc..?

$sudo update-alternatives --config www-browser
There is only one alternative in link group www-browser (providing 
/usr/bin/www-browser): /usr/bin/lynx
Nothing to configure.


$ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
/usr/bin/lynx
/usr/bin/palemoon


$ update-alternatives --get-selections | grep browser
gnome-www-browser  auto /usr/bin/palemoon
www-browserauto /usr/bin/lynx
x-www-browser  auto /usr/bin/lynx

$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser 
/usr/bin/lynx 50
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lynx to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser 
(x-www-browser) in auto mode
jindam@localhost:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing 
/usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  SelectionPath   Priority   Status

* 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 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-related-things-4175717193/

regards,
jindam, vani

toots: @jindam_v...@c.im
others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani

Firefox insists to be default browser ...

[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 on 'dont ask me again', and have set it as default browser in 
Mate's Control Center default applications.


Furthermore, Thunderbird is also set there as default email client. 
However, if I click on a weblink in Thunderbird mail, another 
Thunderbird session opens (instead opening Firefox). And when I close 
both software, and return to Mate Control Center to check again for 
default applications ... voila ... Thunderbird seems as magically 
selected itself for web browser too (both with mail client)!


How to prevent that misbehaviour? All worked well for me with older 
versions of Firefox and Thunderbird (before that version jump to 90 
something). What went wrong with the new versions?


Misko

[SOLVED] Re: Default browser settings muddle

[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 the 'file:///...' call will be different each time.

This turned put to be as a result of a broken browser.desktop file in
.local/share/applications/  Deleting it, and then adding the browser to
the kicker menu generated a new, valid .desktop file.  A tweak to
a couple of file associations in System Settings, and I'm all set.

Thanks go to Luca Pedrielli on the Debian KDE ML for the help in locating
the problem.

-- 
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/ _)radnever immediately apparent"
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Default browser settings muddle

[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/somepageorother
rather than
http://url.of.website/somepageorother
The number in the 'file:///...' call will be different each time.

I've ensured that both gnome-browser and x-www-browser point to the
correct browser, but cannot for the life of me figure out why some calls
are being mishandled.

My online searches have proved fruitless (clearly my search fu isn't up
to snuff) and am hopeful that someone far more knowledgeable than I can
shed some light.

Using Debian testing, with KDE plasma 5.20  Any help greatly appreciated.

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Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

[David Dušanić]

30.05.2014, 18:10, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:


 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.

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Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 30 May 2014 21:35:55 +0200
Linux-Fan ma_sys...@web.de wrote:

 On 05/30/2014 06:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
  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 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-alternatives(8).
 
 # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
 # update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
 
 HTH
 Linux-Fan

Thanks, Linux-Fan!

STeveT

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Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 31 May 2014 12:22:55 +0200
David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com wrote:

 30.05.2014, 18:10, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
 
 
  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.
 

Thanks David!

SteveT

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How to declare default browser in JWM

[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 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

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Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

[Linux-Fan]

On 05/30/2014 06:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
 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 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-alternatives(8).

# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
# update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser

HTH
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chrome as default browser in KDE

[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 to google-chrome
and I've tried

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome
and
update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome

but nothing seems to work


any tips would be fantastic

regards
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Re: chrome as default browser in KDE (solved)

[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 as the default
 
 I've tried Settings/Default and set that to google-chrome
 and I've tried
 
 update-alternatives --config x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome
 and
 update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome
 
 but nothing seems to work
 
 
 any tips would be fantastic
 
 regards
 Dick
 


~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
needed every reference to ice weasel removing :D




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Re: chrome as default browser in KDE

[Kruppt]

On 2013-08-10, Dick Thoms xpd...@gmail.com 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 default

 I've tried Settings/Default and set that to google-chrome
 and I've tried

 update-alternatives --config x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome
 and
 update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome

 but nothing seems to work


 any tips would be fantastic

 regards
 Dick



Run below from term:
libfm-pref-apps
Is it selected here also?


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Re: chrome as default browser in KDE

[Dick Thoms]

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On 10/08/13 14:55, Kruppt wrote:
 On 2013-08-10, Dick Thoms xpd...@gmail.com 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 default

 I've tried Settings/Default and set that to google-chrome
 and I've tried

 update-alternatives --config x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome
 and
 update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome

 but nothing seems to work


 any tips would be fantastic

 regards
 Dick


 
 Run below from term:
 libfm-pref-apps
 Is it selected here also?
 
 
I didn't have the command libfm-pref

but it turns out that manually editing
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
of all references to ice-weasel fixed it :)




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

[Camaleón]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:20:25 +0100, 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 http and https
 links and that solved the problem.

 But what happens when you open a link from an application other than
 Icedove?;-P
 
 The only applications I use which have links are firefox, which is, of
 course, a browser, and icedove which is an email/news client (reader).
 The other applications I use don't usually have links. Sometimes the
 Help-About window has a link which, if clicked, runs firefox. I've
 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 your 
desktop and not just links.

Anyway, if the About window link of KDE apps opens Firefox is because 
Firefox is set as the default browser for your DE.

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Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem

[Camaleón]

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.
 
 Then I discovered that my firefox stopped working. Click on firefox: no
 action. So I deleted firefox from the /usr/local tree and deleted
 ~/.mozilla in case that was the problem (a duff plugin perhaps).

Wow, that was too radical... how about finding first what the problem can 
be? :-)

 Then, using elinks, I downloaded firefox version 11.0 from
 www.mozilla.org and 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 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 to /usr/bin/elinks.

For an X browser should be update-alternatives --list x-www-browser.

 So I tried the command
 sudo apt-get purge elinks-lite

Wowow, sir, you're a compulsive remover ;-D

 but that purged elinks-lite and install konqueror which I definitely do
 not want to use, 'cos I'm happy with firefox.Does clicking on a link now
 load a web browser? No.

Neither Konqueror? :-?

 How can I get the web-browser loaded when I click on an email message
 link? Anybody any ideas?
 
 Sincerely

Try with update-alternatives but remember the leading x.

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

[Sian Mountbatten]

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.


Then I discovered that my firefox stopped working. Click on firefox: no
action. So I deleted firefox from the /usr/local tree and deleted
~/.mozilla in case that was the problem (a duff plugin perhaps).


Wow, that was too radical... how about finding first what the problem can
be? :-)


Yes, I must admit that I am not very good at solving computer problems 
on my own. Even though I've been using Linux since 1993, I still lean on 
other people. I've found that posting in linux.debian.user get's results 
usually. And recently, a very helpful person has been helping me get 
Digital TV in the alt.os.linux.debian newsgroup. Then again, the 
siduction IRC channel can help. Today, I got onto #debian-kde and 
someone solved this browser problem. Took about 5 minutes. I bet that 
Windows users do not get so much help, but I may be wrong, not knowing 
anything about it.



Then, using elinks, I downloaded firefox version 11.0 from
www.mozilla.org and 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 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 to /usr/bin/elinks.


For an X browser should be update-alternatives --list x-www-browser.


So I tried the command
 sudo apt-get purge elinks-lite


Wowow, sir, you're a compulsive remover ;-D


Yes, it's so easy to purge and install packages under Debian.


but that purged elinks-lite and install konqueror which I definitely do
not want to use, 'cos I'm happy with firefox.Does clicking on a link now
load a web browser? No.


Neither Konqueror? :-?


The problem was in icedove (see below).


How can I get the web-browser loaded when I click on an email message
link? Anybody any ideas?

Sincerely


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.


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

[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.

 Then I discovered that my firefox stopped working. Click on firefox:
 no action. So I deleted firefox from the /usr/local tree and deleted
 ~/.mozilla in case that was the problem (a duff plugin perhaps).

 Wow, that was too radical... how about finding first what the problem
 can be? :-)
 
 Yes, I must admit that I am not very good at solving computer problems
 on my own. Even though I've been using Linux since 1993, I still lean on
 other people. I've found that posting in linux.debian.user get's results
 usually. And recently, a very helpful person has been helping me get
 Digital TV in the alt.os.linux.debian newsgroup. Then again, the
 siduction IRC channel can help. Today, I got onto #debian-kde and
 someone solved this browser problem. Took about 5 minutes. I bet that
 Windows users do not get so much help, but I may be wrong, not knowing
 anything about it.

He, he... like a sucking leech (just kidding ;-) ). 

I'm the opposite. I love wasting my time in solving (mine or others) 
problems, it's fun and you learn a lot by doing so, it's like self-
teaching.
 
 So I tried the command
  sudo apt-get purge elinks-lite

 Wowow, sir, you're a compulsive remover ;-D
 
 Yes, it's so easy to purge and install packages under Debian.

Yes, but despite its easiness one should first ask himself why he wants 
to remove the package. Having a text browser installed can save your butt 
under some scenarios, usually when you can't install packages for 
whatever unknown reason and you have to browse the web from a tty 
(Murphy's law) :-)

 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.

But what happens when you open a link from an application other than 
Icedove? ;-P

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

[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.


But what happens when you open a link from an application other than
Icedove?;-P


The only applications I use which have links are firefox, which is, of 
course, a browser, and icedove which is an email/news client (reader). 
The other applications I use don't usually have links. Sometimes the 
Help-About window has a link which, if clicked, runs firefox. I've 
noticed that before and wondered whether that's a standard KDE function.


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

[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 http and https
links and that solved the problem.


But what happens when you open a link from an application other than
Icedove?;-P


The only applications I use which have links are firefox, which is, of 
course, a browser, and icedove which is an email/news client (reader). 
The other applications I use don't usually have links. Sometimes the 
Help-About window has a link which, if clicked, runs firefox. I've 
noticed that before and wondered whether that's a standard KDE function.


Regards


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 default web browser.



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

[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 default web browser.

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siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem

[Sian Mountbatten]

When I clicked on an http link in an email message in icedove, firefox 
was started and the link appeared on a tab.


Then I discovered that my firefox stopped working. Click on firefox: no 
action. So I deleted firefox from the /usr/local tree and deleted 
~/.mozilla in case that was the problem (a duff plugin perhaps).


Then, using elinks, I downloaded firefox version 11.0 from 
www.mozilla.org and 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 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 to /usr/bin/elinks. 
So I tried the command

   sudo apt-get purge elinks-lite
but that purged elinks-lite and install konqueror which I definitely do 
not want to use, 'cos I'm happy with firefox.Does clicking on a link now 
load a web browser? No.


How can I get the web-browser loaded when I click on an email message 
link? Anybody any ideas?


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

[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, KDE...) has its own defined rules for taking care of 
 this and they collide. So usually, users has to make some tweaks to get 
 the behaviour they want.

And don't forget about x-www-browser, which can be configured site-wide 
with update-alternatives, which is Debian specific.

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

[Lisi]

On Thursday 14 October 2010 00:15:10 Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
 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 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?
  - network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http to true?
 
  Thanks, Camaleón.  You are a mine of useful information. :-)   Just what
  I wanted to know, mutatis mutandis.  I don't mind what Iceweasel thinks
  is the default browser, but I want clicking on a link in an email in
  Icedove to open a window in Konqueror and not in Iceweasel.
 
  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 looking?
 
  Lisi

 Indeed, somehow I missed Camaleón's response. I'm glad you (Lisi)
 responded to Camaleón. Most grateful to both of you. I changed the http
 and https settings in icedove (Config Editor button on the General tab
 of the Preferences dialog), and clicking a link in an e-mail is finally
 calling up chromium-browser.

And my husband's computer now uses Konqueror when a link in an email is 
clicked.  Thanks to both of you.  I have been meaning to do something about 
this via google for some time.

Lisi


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

[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
  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?
 - network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http to true?
 
 Thanks, Camaleón.  You are a mine of useful information. :-)   Just what
 I wanted to know, mutatis mutandis.  I don't mind what Iceweasel thinks
 is the default browser, but I want clicking on a link in an email in
 Icedove to open a window in Konqueror and not in Iceweasel.
 
 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 looking?

:-)

In Thunderbird, you can access to the configuration editor (sort of 
about:config) by going to Edit / Preferences / Advanced tab  (general 
tab) Configuration editor button.

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

[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 looking?

 Lisi
 
 Indeed, somehow I missed Camaleón's response. I'm glad you (Lisi)
 responded to Camaleón. Most grateful to both of you. I changed the http
 and https settings in icedove (Config Editor button on the General tab
 of the Preferences dialog), and clicking a link in an e-mail is finally
 calling up chromium-browser.

Nice to see it works :-)
 
 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 charge of Firefox/
Thunderbird). 

On linux systems that causes a bit of mess because every desktop 
environment (GNOME, KDE...) has its own defined rules for taking care of 
this and they collide. So usually, users has to make some tweaks to get 
the behaviour they want.

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

[Gilbert Sullivan]

On 10/14/2010 03:24 AM, Lisi wrote:

On Thursday 14 October 2010 00:15:10 Gilbert Sullivan wrote:

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 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?
- network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http to true?


Thanks, Camaleón.  You are a mine of useful information. :-)   Just what
I wanted to know, mutatis mutandis.  I don't mind what Iceweasel thinks
is the default browser, but I want clicking on a link in an email in
Icedove to open a window in Konqueror and not in Iceweasel.

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 looking?

Lisi


Indeed, somehow I missed Camaleón's response. I'm glad you (Lisi)
responded to Camaleón. Most grateful to both of you. I changed the http
and https settings in icedove (Config Editor button on the General tab
of the Preferences dialog), and clicking a link in an e-mail is finally
calling up chromium-browser.


And my husband's computer now uses Konqueror when a link in an email is
clicked.  Thanks to both of you.  I have been meaning to do something about
this via google for some time.

Lisi


I had tried searching on this off and on for a few days, but I never 
found anything pertinent. I also looked through the Thunderbird 
documentation posted online and didn't find what I needed. I was working 
with a sleep deficit, so I may have slipped up while doing my homework.


I considered posting at the Mozilla forums, but I knew that this list is 
frequented by people who could cover the issue from all angles. And 
then, surely enough,  Camaleón came to the rescue!


Regards,
Gilbert


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

[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 charge of Firefox/
Thunderbird).

On linux systems that causes a bit of mess because every desktop
environment (GNOME, KDE...) has its own defined rules for taking care of
this and they collide. So usually, users has to make some tweaks to get
the behaviour they want.


Thank you for that information. I prefer it when developers try to make 
their software integrate easity with the environments in which it's 
used. Maybe I'll look into going away from Icedove/Iceweasel. But, for 
the time being, you've made life with that pair a little more convenient 
for me.


I see your posts all the time on the lists. You certainly are useful to 
have around!


;-)

Regards,
Gilbert


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

[Klistvud]

Dne, 14. 10. 2010 14:19:25 je Gilbert Sullivan napisal(a):

On 10/14/2010 04:01 AM, Camaleón wrote:


snip

You certainly are useful to have around!



+1

And indefatigable too -- keeping this list chuggling even at 04:01 AM!

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

[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:

 snip

  You certainly are useful to have around!

 +1

 And indefatigable too -- keeping this list chuggling even at 04:01 AM!

+1

I don't know how anyone can achieve the number of very helpful posts that we 
see from Camaleón.

Lisi


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

[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:

 snip

  You certainly are useful to have around!

 +1

 And indefatigable too -- keeping this list chuggling even at 04:01 AM!

LOL!

But I never work on that hours, it may look so because of my timezone 
(now CEST) :-P

 +1
 
 I don't know how anyone can achieve the number of very helpful posts
 that we see from Camaleón.

Hey, thanks you all.

True is that there is many knowledgeable people in this list :-)

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

[Celejar]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:18:34 +0100
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com 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:
 
  snip
 
   You certainly are useful to have around!
 
  +1
 
  And indefatigable too -- keeping this list chuggling even at 04:01 AM!
 
 +1
 
 I don't know how anyone can achieve the number of very helpful posts that we 
 see from Camaleón.

AOL! [I think I'll be excused just this once.]

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icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

[Gilbert Sullivan]

Debian testing, Xfce - with icedove, iceweasel, and chromium-browser 
installed.


I decided to set chromium-browser as the default Web browser. In all 
other applications if I click on a Web link, the page loads in 
chromium-browser.


If I click on a Web link within icedove, iceweasel is 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 preferred applications 
as the default Web browser.


I can't figure whether this is an Xfce problem, a Debian problem, or a 
Mozilla problem. (But I have my suspicions.)


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!


Thanks!


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

[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 the variables...

- network.protocol-handler.app.http pointing to the Chromium binary 
path? 
- network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http to true?

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

[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, 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?
 - network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http to true?

Thanks, Camaleón.  You are a mine of useful information. :-)   Just what I 
wanted to know, mutatis mutandis.  I don't mind what Iceweasel thinks is the 
default browser, but I want clicking on a link in an email in Icedove to open 
a window in Konqueror and not in Iceweasel.

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 looking?

Lisi


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

[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 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?
- network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http to true?


Thanks, Camaleón.  You are a mine of useful information. :-)   Just what I
wanted to know, mutatis mutandis.  I don't mind what Iceweasel thinks is the
default browser, but I want clicking on a link in an email in Icedove to open
a window in Konqueror and not in Iceweasel.

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 looking?

Lisi


Indeed, somehow I missed Camaleón's response. I'm glad you (Lisi) 
responded to Camaleón. Most grateful to both of you. I changed the http 
and https settings in icedove (Config Editor button on the General tab 
of the Preferences dialog), and clicking a link in an e-mail is finally 
calling up chromium-browser.


Why on earth would the Mozilla people set the mail client to behave this 
way?


Regards,
Gilbert


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How to change Icedove default browser?

[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 Icedove uses 
in any of the preferences or about:config.


Anybody know the answer?

BTW: Icedove=2.0.0.17 running on Lenny

TIA!
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Re: How to change Icedove default browser?

[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
 Icedove.

 And I can't find any thing about wihich browser Icedove uses in any of
 the preferences or about:config.

 Anybody know the answer?

I found the following in /etc/icedove/pref/icedove.js:

// if you are not using gnome
pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, x-www-browser);
pref(network.protocol-handler.app.https, x-www-browser);

Don't remember how these settings came in there, but I think you can
also set them in user.js or prefs.js in your profile directory.

Sven


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

[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 worked it didn't work, even though I bounced
Icedove.

And I can't find any thing about wihich browser Icedove uses in any of
the preferences or about:config.

Anybody know the answer?


I found the following in /etc/icedove/pref/icedove.js:

// if you are not using gnome
pref(network.protocol-handler.app.http, x-www-browser);
pref(network.protocol-handler.app.https, x-www-browser);

Don't remember how these settings came in there, but I think you can
also set them in user.js or prefs.js in your profile directory.

Sven



Sven,

Thanks for the suggestion! Sometimes my brain needs a little 
prodding to get started down the right path.


I am using Gnome so ...

I found the correct option in Gnome: System  Preferences  
Preferred Applications


When I changed that it took effect immediately!

Thanks!
Dennis


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Re: Default browser

[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 but still 
 opens in Epiphany!  How do Make it open in Iceweasel?
 Thanks
 Jeff


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Re: Default browser

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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 applications?


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Re: Default browser(Problem fixed)

[Jeff]

Thanks for the reply. Problem has been fixed now.
Jeff

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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 applications?


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Default browser

[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
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Re: gnome default browser

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

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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 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 --config x-www-browser chose iceweasel the
 option number 2 and nothing the links ar still open in epiphany what
 should i do to really use iceweasel 

 ty for help  
 
 I suspect you'll have to modify that in System-Preferences- Preferred
 Applications.  Set it to sensible browser if you want to use the Debian
 Alternatives to configure the default browser.
 
 /M
 

Or you can use gconf and search for epiphany. Then, just switch from
epiphany to x-www-browser.

Works for me.

Cheers,
Cassiano Leal
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gnome default browser

[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 --config x-www-browser chose
iceweasel the option number 2 and nothing the links ar
still open in epiphany what should i do to really use
iceweasel 

ty for help  


 

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Re: gnome default browser

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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 link always start the epiphany insted of iceweasel i do the
sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser chose iceweasel the
option number 2 and nothing the links ar still open in epiphany what
should i do to really use iceweasel 

ty for help  

I suspect you'll have to modify that in System-Preferences- Preferred
Applications.  Set it to sensible browser if you want to use the Debian
Alternatives to configure the default browser.

/M

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selecting default browser under icedove

[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 it is something quite straight forward, but I just haven't 
come across it yet.


Any pointers, please?

Thanks

A

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Re: selecting default browser under icedove

[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/browsers section, references are to Netscape (?). I am sure 
 that it is something quite straight forward, but I just haven't come across 
 it yet.

 Any pointers, please?

See Arthur Marsh's recent message:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.html

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Re: selecting default browser under icedove

[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, references are to Netscape (?). I am
 sure that it is something quite straight forward, but I just haven't
 come across it yet.

 Any pointers, please?

 Thanks

 A

Go to /usr/share/applications , and click on default applications.desktop .

You can set default webbrowser, and email client for Gnome based apps here.

Nigel.


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[SOLVED] Re: selecting default browser under icedove

[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 
configuration/browsers section, references are to Netscape (?). I am sure 
that it is something quite straight forward, but I just haven't come across 
it yet.


Any pointers, please?



See Arthur Marsh's recent message:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.html

  
Thanks. I fiddled with that for a while, without any luck, so tried this 
instead:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure icedove

Which brings up the ncurses screen. I then selected Gnome to handle the 
preference and that now works just fine.


Thanks for the input folks

A


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

[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. 

snip



See Arthur Marsh's recent message:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.html

  
Thanks. I fiddled with that for a while, without any luck, so tried this 
instead:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure icedove
 


Another solution is to use update-alternatives:
% sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser



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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

[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, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or
 whatever it's called in english it says custom with the command to run 
 the application set to /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox %s. When I set it 
 to iceweasel in the dropdown menu and start iceweasel, it gives me the 
 I'm not your default browser, buhu-crap again. And when I confirm to 
 let the app set itself as default the etnry in the default app-settings 
 from Gnome are as they were in the beginning.
 
 So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that the 
 entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather than 
 some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just disable 
 the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem wouldn't be solved 
 by that, now would it?
 
 Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this 
 behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the source, I 
 have only one more question: Where should I file this, is it a debian 
 related problem, firefox or Gnome?
 
 Thanks again.
 
 P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really 
 figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did
 
 #update-alternatives --display firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display browser
 
 and they all returned no alternatives for $command
 
 

As Andrei and Joe indicated, you should be using x-www-broswer.  My
results:

:~$ sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
Password:
x-www-browser - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/epiphany
/usr/bin/epiphany - priority 85
 slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/epiphany.1.gz
/usr/bin/iceweasel - priority 70
 slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/iceweasel.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/epiphany.

Per the update-alternatives man page, the default directory for the
alternatives system is /etc/alternatives:

The generic name is not a direct symbolic link to the selected
alternative.  Instead, it is a symbolic link to
a name in the alternatives directory, which in turn is a symbolic link
to the actual file referenced.  This is
done so that the system administrator’s changes can be confined within
the  /etc  directory:  the  FHS  (q.v.)
gives reasons why this is a Good Thing.

So if you want to see a list of all the alternative categories
available, you can do:

:~$ ls /etc/alternatives

Since you are using Gnome, you may also want to check that
gnome-www-browser also gives the result you want:

:~$ sudo update-alternatives --display gnome-www-browser

To change any of these settings, you use update-alternatives --config
[...], per the man page.

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 guess that's a
bug.  But as Joe said, you can just turn that check off as long as
Iceweasel is functioning as your default browser.  In this case, if it
is working the way you want, does it really matter if it for some reason
doesn't recognize that it is working the way you want?


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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

[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 guess that's a
 bug.  But as Joe said, you can just turn that check off as long as
 Iceweasel is functioning as your default browser.  In this case, if it
 is working the way you want, does it really matter if it for some reason
 doesn't recognize that it is working the way you want?

These are system wide, debian specific, settings. Iceweasel only checks
if the user has it set as default. (Presumably this is only for GNOME
and perhaps KDE?).

Anyway, this is a known bug, see 399632 and merged bugs.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399632

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[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 english it says custom with the command to run 
the application set to /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox %s. When I set it 
to iceweasel in the dropdown menu and start iceweasel, it gives me the 
I'm not your default browser, buhu-crap again. And when I confirm to 
let the app set itself as default the etnry in the default app-settings 
from Gnome are as they were in the beginning.


So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that the 
entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather than 
some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just disable 
the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem wouldn't be solved 
by that, now would it?


Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this 
behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the source, I 
have only one more question: Where should I file this, is it a debian 
related problem, firefox or Gnome?


Thanks again.

P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really 
figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did


#update-alternatives --display firefox
#update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
#update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
#update-alternatives --display browser

and they all returned no alternatives for $command


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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

[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'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or
 whatever it's called in english it says custom with the command to
 run the application set to /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox %s. When I
  ^^^
Are you sure about that?

 So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that
 the entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather
 than some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just
 disable the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem
 wouldn't be solved by that, now would it?
 
 Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this 
 behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the
 source, I have only one more question: Where should I file this, is
 it a debian related problem, firefox or Gnome?

I would report it against the iceweasel package as it seems to be a
packaging problem. If it's not, then the package maintainer will
forward it upstream.

 P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really 
 figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did
 
 #update-alternatives --display firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display browser

Firefox/Iceweasel is an alternative for x-www-browser. Try:

update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

[Joe Hart]

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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, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or
 whatever it's called in english it says custom with the command to run
 the application set to /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox %s. When I set it
 to iceweasel in the dropdown menu and start iceweasel, it gives me the
 I'm not your default browser, buhu-crap again. And when I confirm to
 let the app set itself as default the etnry in the default app-settings
 from Gnome are as they were in the beginning.
 
 So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that the
 entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather than
 some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just disable
 the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem wouldn't be solved
 by that, now would it?
 
 Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this
 behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the source, I
 have only one more question: Where should I file this, is it a debian
 related problem, firefox or Gnome?
 
 Thanks again.
 
 P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really
 figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did
 
 #update-alternatives --display firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display browser
 
 and they all returned no alternatives for $command
 
 

Keep in mind, that Firefox main target is Windows, and while Iceweasel
is Debian's fork of the project, I suspect much of the code is specific
to Windows, including that default browser.  I would suggest you just
turn off the feature in IceWeasel, which you can do by going to Edit -
Preferences, Main tab, uncheck Always check to see if Iceweasel is the
default browser.

Your problem will go away.

As for the update-alternatives, you've got the --display right, but you
should be looking for www-browser instead of browser.

#update-alternatives --config www-browser

Should allow you to choose the default.

If Iceweasel isn't one of the choices, then you need to tell
update-alternatives that IceWeasel is a candidate for www-browser.  You
do that with the --install parameter.

Amazing what one learns when reading the manual.  Just yesterday I was
arguing about modifing the symlinks directly and it was suggest that I
read that man page.

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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

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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
 update-alternatives report?
 Okay, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or
 whatever it's called in english it says custom with the command to run
 the application set to /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox %s. When I set it
 to iceweasel in the dropdown menu and start iceweasel, it gives me the
 I'm not your default browser, buhu-crap again. And when I confirm to
 let the app set itself as default the etnry in the default app-settings
 from Gnome are as they were in the beginning.
 
 So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that the
 entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather than
 some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just disable
 the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem wouldn't be solved
 by that, now would it?
 
 Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this
 behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the source, I
 have only one more question: Where should I file this, is it a debian
 related problem, firefox or Gnome?
 
 Thanks again.
 
 P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really
 figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did
 
 #update-alternatives --display firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
 #update-alternatives --display browser
 
 and they all returned no alternatives for $command
 
 
 
 Keep in mind, that Firefox main target is Windows, and while Iceweasel
 is Debian's fork of the project, I suspect much of the code is specific
 to Windows, including that default browser.  I would suggest you just
 turn off the feature in IceWeasel, which you can do by going to Edit -
 Preferences, Main tab, uncheck Always check to see if Iceweasel is the
 default browser.
 
 Your problem will go away.
 
 As for the update-alternatives, you've got the --display right, but you
 should be looking for www-browser instead of browser.
 
 #update-alternatives --config www-browser

Andrei is correct.  It should be x-www-browser.  www-browser just
controls which browser is used in the console.

Shame on me for telling you www-browser.  Still, IMO, telling Iceweasel
not to check is the best option in your case.

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[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 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 it is not 
the default browser atm and wether or not I want to make it.


Help greatly appreciated as always.
Cheers, Roman.


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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

[Michael M.]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:38 +0100, Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote:
 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 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 it is not 
 the default browser atm and wether or not I want to make it.


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?


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Re: Cannot change default browser

[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 the menus and
choices, is blank.

  

Otherwise, try opening ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
There should be an entry like this:
[General]
BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/epiphany

Change that to firefox and hopefully you will be ready to go.
I have not tried this, and I am not responsible if your monitor explodes.



I opened this file, but there was no such entry in it as
BrowserApplication or anything labelled [General].  So, I added them
just in case that may work.  However, I still always get epiphany.
Though, on the up side, my monitor did not explode.

Perhaps this is hard encoded into Kopete these days.  It clearly
doesn't use anything in the system to decide this.
  
Isn't Kopete a KDE program?  And Epiphany is Gnome?  Seems like a very 
unlikely hard-wiring.


Google search...
http://www.google.com/search?q=kopete%20default-browser

First link...
http://www.kde-forum.org/archive/14334/thread.html

Might be a hint.  Apparently, a lot of people have this problem.

HTH,
Matthew


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Re: Cannot change default browser

[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
choices, is blank.

 Otherwise, try opening ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
 There should be an entry like this:
 [General]
 BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/epiphany
 
 Change that to firefox and hopefully you will be ready to go.
 I have not tried this, and I am not responsible if your monitor explodes.

I opened this file, but there was no such entry in it as
BrowserApplication or anything labelled [General].  So, I added them
just in case that may work.  However, I still always get epiphany.
Though, on the up side, my monitor did not explode.

Perhaps this is hard encoded into Kopete these days.  It clearly
doesn't use anything in the system to decide this.

Many thanks for the suggestions,

Patrick


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Cannot change default browser

[cothrige]

I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs,
and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my
accounts it always opens epiphany.  Of course, the first thing I did
was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I
could find nothing at all in the config options which indicated any
selections of browsers.

I don't have a full KDE installed, and so there is no control center
type of thing I can run to change that.  But I switched to gnome 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 helps, I tried
'update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox' but I still
get epiphany.  When I run 'update-alternatives --list x-www-browser'
this is what I get: 
/usr/bin/epiphany 
/usr/bin/firefox 
/usr/bin/opera

If I run 'update-alternatives --config x-www-browser' I get:

There are 3 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.

  SelectionAlternative
---
 +1/usr/bin/epiphany
* 2/usr/bin/firefox
  3/usr/bin/opera

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 2
Using `/usr/bin/firefox' to provide `x-www-browser'.

I have checked display and it says x-www-browser is set to manual, so
I thought the + would not mean anything, but it still defaults
everytime to epiphany.

Finally, I uninstalled epiphany, causing untold problems in the Gnome
world, and this caused Opera to open.  I actually like opera for some
things, but not this, and so don't really want to have to uninstall
it.  So, now I am back to square one.

Just how do I convince this app not to use any browser but firefox?

Many thanks for any help,

Patrick


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Re: Cannot change default browser

[Alan Ianson]

On Mon November 13 2006 17:05, cothrige wrote:
 I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs,
 and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my
 accounts it always opens epiphany.  Of course, the first thing I did
 was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I
 could find nothing at all in the config options which indicated any
 selections of browsers.

 I don't have a full KDE installed, and so there is no control center
 type of thing I can run to change that.  But I switched to gnome 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 helps, I tried
 'update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox' but I still
 get epiphany.  When I run 'update-alternatives --list x-www-browser'
 this is what I get:
 /usr/bin/epiphany
 /usr/bin/firefox
 /usr/bin/opera

 If I run 'update-alternatives --config x-www-browser' I get:

 There are 3 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.

   SelectionAlternative
 ---
  +1/usr/bin/epiphany
 * 2/usr/bin/firefox
   3/usr/bin/opera

 Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 2
 Using `/usr/bin/firefox' to provide `x-www-browser'.

 I have checked display and it says x-www-browser is set to manual, so
 I thought the + would not mean anything, but it still defaults
 everytime to epiphany.

 Finally, I uninstalled epiphany, causing untold problems in the Gnome
 world, and this caused Opera to open.  I actually like opera for some
 things, but not this, and so don't really want to have to uninstall
 it.  So, now I am back to square one.

 Just how do I convince this app not to use any browser but firefox?

Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or 
somesuch) that may need an adjustment.


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[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-browser as the
other, and even though I set it it has no effect.  So far, no matter
what I do I get epiphany, or opera if I uninstall epiphany.  BTW, I
also confirmed that the symlink in /etc/alternatives points to
firefox, which seems to indicate that the system is not even accessing
these links.  

Patrick


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Re: Cannot change default browser

[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 case.  I find the same result for gnome-www-browser as the
other, and even though I set it it has no effect.  So far, no matter
what I do I get epiphany, or opera if I uninstall epiphany.  BTW, I
also confirmed that the symlink in /etc/alternatives points to
firefox, which seems to indicate that the system is not even accessing
these links.

Patrick


You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple
of things that kopete doesn't.

Otherwise, try opening ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
There should be an entry like this:
[General]
BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/epiphany

Change that to firefox and hopefully you will be ready to go.
I have not tried this, and I am not responsible if your monitor explodes.


Cheers,
Kelly


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Re: how to set firefox default browser in gnome

[Alejandro Bárcena Campos]

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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
 ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote:
 [Mozilla]
 filename=firefox
 NEEDS_TERM=false
 NREMOTE=ture
 
 so the default browser is firefox.
 
 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

 
 3. in command line of gnome-terminal, it also opens epiphany.
I don't use gnome

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Re: how to set firefox default browser in gnome

[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