The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
firing up the gnome or kde browser?

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:57:45PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
> programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
> firing up the gnome or kde browser?
If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, which is not very long, you
see 2 things that it looks for:
1) the environment variable called BROWSER
2) the Debian 'alternative' www-browser and x-www-browser
It check $BROWSER first and if that does not exist, it checks, if in X,
x-www-browser. This is set by a few means. One way is to make a manual
symlink. On my system:
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-04-09 23:04 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/firefox
So, 'ln -s /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser /usr/bin/seamonkey' might do
it. I say might because, IIRC, gnome and kde sometimes overide this in
ways that i have not investiaged.(if someone out in -user land knows the
rest of the story, do tell).
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On Saturday 28 July 2007 13:57, Rick Pasotto shared this with us all:
>--} The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
>--} programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
>--} firing up the gnome or kde browser?
>--}
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>--} When in doubt. . . mumble.
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In KDE go into Control Panel/KDE Components/File Associations/text/html and
select Seamonkey and place it at the top of your list. Directly beneath it
your second choice, beneath that your third choice...... etc., etc..

Hope that s.
Charlie

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Kevin Mark(kevin.mark@verizon.net) is reported to have said:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:57:45PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
> > programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
> > firing up the gnome or kde browser?
> If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, which is not very long, you
> see 2 things that it looks for:
> 1) the environment variable called BROWSER
> 2) the Debian 'alternative' www-browser and x-www-browser
> It check $BROWSER first and if that does not exist, it checks, if in X,
> x-www-browser. This is set by a few means. One way is to make a manual
> symlink. On my system:
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-04-09 23:04 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/firefox
> So, 'ln -s /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser /usr/bin/seamonkey' might do
> it. I say might because, IIRC, gnome and kde sometimes overide this in
> ways that i have not investiaged.(if someone out in -user land knows the
> rest of the story, do tell).

Or do it the debian way woth update-alternatives.

u update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Wayne

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On 07/28/2007 12:50 AM, M-L wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007 13:57, Rick Pasotto shared this with us all:
>> --} The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
>> --} programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
>> --} firing up the gnome or kde browser?
[snip]
>
> In KDE go into Control Panel/KDE Components/File Associations/text/html and
> select Seamonkey and place it at the top of your list. Directly beneath it
> your second choice, beneath that your third choice...... etc., etc..
>
On my desktop, toolbar, there's a "Desktop" menu which includes:
Preferences
...
Preferred Applications

From the name of "Preferred Applications" I assumed that's what
I could use to specify the default web browser. In 'Preferred
Applications' there was a 'Internet' tab which had an entry
from 'Web Browser' and 'Mail Reader'. The 'Web Browser'
entry had 'iceweasel'. However, when, in 'icedove' I clicked
on a url, the epiphany browser was used. Why wasn't the
'Preferred Applications'.'Web Browser' application used instead?


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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:06:12PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Kevin Mark(kevin.mark@verizon.net) is reported to have said:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:57:45PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > > The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get
> > > programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of
> > > firing up the gnome or kde browser?
> > If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, which is not very long, you
> > see 2 things that it looks for:
> > 1) the environment variable called BROWSER
> > 2) the Debian 'alternative' www-browser and x-www-browser
> > It check $BROWSER first and if that does not exist, it checks, if in X,
> > x-www-browser. This is set by a few means. One way is to make a manual
> > symlink. On my system:
> > $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-04-09 23:04 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/firefox
> > So, 'ln -s /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser /usr/bin/seamonkey' might do
> > it. I say might because, IIRC, gnome and kde sometimes overide this in
> > ways that i have not investiaged.(if someone out in -user land knows the
> > rest of the story, do tell).
>
> Or do it the debian way woth update-alternatives.
>
> u update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

How do I add seamonkey to the list of alternatives?

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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:57:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>
> How do I add seamonkey to the list of alternatives?

update-alternatives --install seamonkey x-www-browser /path/to/seamonkey 80

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