Re: [xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

2017-01-04 Thread Dan Hitt
Ah, great, thanks Len!! I certainly did not know about exo-open (although i did know about gnome-open, but that's something you have to explicitly apt-get, so i would be hesitant to code it in --- i assume exo-open is bundled, and if xfce is present then it is too?). Of course, Fred is also

Re: [xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

2017-01-04 Thread Len Philpot
You're right about T-bird, it took an extension to get it to use Chrome. But I've had it happen with software that has no such configuration. For example, just this evening with Areca backup. *Len Philpot* lphilpo...@gmail.com /Sent from Thunderbird on Xubuntu

Re: [xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

2017-01-04 Thread Len Philpot
My understanding is, that's what 'exo-open --launch WebBrowser' is designed to fix. It handles the aliasing between a black box API-ish call the program makes and the actual browser that ends up being called on the back end. All the caller has to know is, "exo-open --launch WebBrowser".

Re: [xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

2017-01-04 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi Fred and/or Len or anybody in the know, Supposing that you are writing a program that might want to open a browser, say to open a help file located somewhere on the web, what api would you use, in Xubuntu, to know what browser to use, and what the calling convention was? Or, in other words,

Re: [xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

2017-01-04 Thread fred roller
Each program may/does have it's own preference setting. Some software will call on the system and some, like Thunderbird I believe, will set the preference locally within itself. -- Fred On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Len Philpot wrote: > ...despite not being visibly

[xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

2017-01-04 Thread Len Philpot
...despite not being visibly set as default? For HTMLfiles in a volume, Chrome opens by default. Yet particularly from applications when opening HTML help, for example, they all-too-often do so in Firefox. * I have Chrome set as the webbrowser in Preferred Applications. * There are zero

Re: [xubuntu-users] Missing packages libpng12-dev and libxp-dev in 16.04 and 16.10

2017-01-04 Thread Peter Flynn
On 01/04/2017 10:48 PM, Robert Streeter wrote: > You could try pkgs.org just search for those packages. > I am sure you might find them there, just look for the Ubuntu versions. Unfortunately they are not there. ///Peter > On Jan 4, 2017 4:21 PM, "Peter Flynn"

Re: [xubuntu-users] Missing packages libpng12-dev and libxp-dev in 16.04 and 16.10

2017-01-04 Thread Robert Streeter
You could try pkgs.org just search for those packages. .I am sure you might find them there , just look for the Ubuntu versions. On Jan 4, 2017 4:21 PM, "Peter Flynn" wrote: > I am trying to compile Enlightenment under 16.04 and 16.10 but two > packages required (libpng12-dev

[xubuntu-users] Missing packages libpng12-dev and libxp-dev in 16.04 and 16.10

2017-01-04 Thread Peter Flynn
I am trying to compile Enlightenment under 16.04 and 16.10 but two packages required (libpng12-dev and libxp-dev) seem to have vanished from the Ubuntu distros, although they have been in earlier releases for years, and are still current in Debian. Does anyone know where to get them? ///Peter