Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 06:12:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: It definitely is not on mine. Not on Lenny, Squeeze, nor Sid. I just double checked by doing the tests. Variable settings in .bashrc are not available to GNOME. I have this in

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:07:02PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: AFAIK it is still true that unless you have taken special measures (e.g. ~/.xsession) then the .bashrc environment will not be present to the GNOME desktop. It sure seems to be

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: It definitely is not on mine. Not on Lenny, Squeeze, nor Sid. I just double checked by doing the tests. Variable settings in .bashrc are not available to GNOME. I have this in my .bashrc and they work with no problem:

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Steve Kleene
On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote: Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the . On 2011-07-26 02:39:24 GMT, I wrote: I just did try that with the , and I still got sensible-browser when I used metamail. Maybe that's unexpected, but at least

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Kleene wrote: I should clarify that I am doing all of this from command lines under a window manager (fvwm). When I call startx, the first xterm's settings come from ~/.bash_login. But if I call more xterms from there, any settings in ~/.bashrc override those. This was easily verified

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:39:24AM +, Steve Kleene wrote: On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote: Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the . I just did try that with the , and I still got sensible-browser when I used metamail. Maybe

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:29:43PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, I wrote: From my command line, I tried BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: AFAIK it is still true that unless you have taken special measures (e.g. ~/.xsession) then the .bashrc environment will not be present to the GNOME desktop. It sure seems to be present out of the box on mine (Lenny and Squeeze). In addition to

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote: How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser defined? You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with text/html. I prefer to have iceweasel called instead of

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:24:59 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am running squeeze w/ gnome desktop. I am attempting to use google-chrome as my browser, but I also use Mutt as my MUA. Under some situations, maybe always, but it is confusing, when I am presented with an email containing HTML, I am

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:05:18PM +, Steve Kleene wrote: On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote: How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser defined? You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser defined? These are defined in the directory /etc/alternatives. For help, see the man page update-alternatives(8). Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 04:30:57PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:05:18PM +, Steve Kleene wrote: On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote: How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:05:18PM +, I wrote: You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with text/html. I prefer to have iceweasel called instead of sensible-browser, so I move the line with sensible-browser to the end of mailcap. I often have to repeat this procedure after

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, Steve Kleene wrote: On 2011-07-25 19:14:48 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote: Anything wrong with putting the following line in .bashrc? BROWSER=/usr/bin/google-chrome export BROWSER From my command line, I tried BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export

Re: debian sensible browser help SOLVED

2011-07-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110725_140518, Steve Kleene wrote: On 2011-07-25 02:24:59 GMT, Paul E Condon wrote: How do I make debian offer google-chrome to gnome? I have checked all the places I know of. Where is sensible browser defined? You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with text/html.

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, I wrote: From my command line, I tried BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and /etc/mailcap listed

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, I wrote: From my command line, I tried BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and

debian sensible browser help

2011-07-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I am running squeeze w/ gnome desktop. I am attempting to use google-chrome as my browser, but I also use Mutt as my MUA. Under some situations, maybe always, but it is confusing, when I am presented with an email containing HTML, I am but into Iceweasel rather than google-chrome. I had thought

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-24 Thread Burhan Hanoglu
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I am running squeeze w/ gnome desktop. I am attempting to use google-chrome as my browser, but I also use Mutt as my MUA. Under some situations, maybe always, but it is confusing, when I am presented with an email