On Friday 22 February 2008 19:55, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I set BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel > It was not set (who/what is supposed to set this?)
It is not required to set this, but some programs, sensible-browser for example, respect it when it is set. > Then entering the command "sensible-browser" at the > command prompt in a gnome-terminal window opens an > Iceweasel session. If I give it a URL as an arg it will > open the web page when Iceweasel starts. Good, that's normal behavior and I expected it. > But, when I start BOINC Manager and then select eg. > "Your account" it still opens a gnome-terminal window > instead of the browser. Ok, now please try this again, but this time start the BOINC Manager in a gnome-terminal window like this: $ BROWSER=iceweasel boincmgr Does it use Iceweasel as browser now? Cheers, -- Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP public key ID: 0xDC426429 Debian Developer finger fst/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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