Kevin Mark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 -- Real programmers don't bring brown-bag lunches. If the vending machine doesn't sell it, they don't eat it. Vending machines don't sell quiche. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]