This is probably getting far afield from Fink. But the following is driving crazy. I installed X with Fink. I installed whatever I needed to get sawfish (sawmill) going as my desktop, which is to say whatever pieces of gnome and midnight commander etc. I just said yes to without noting them.
Sometimes when I have a url, say http://fink.sourceforge.net in a gnome terminal, but not a regular terminal window, sometimes right-clicking the mouse brings up a menu that says launch in browser. If I do this it chooses Internet Explorer. Reviewing the below post, it occured to me that I may have more control over what gets executed from where. 1. How do I completely excise MSIE from my system. After comparing it with the choices of NetScape, Mozilla, and Omniweb, lynx, w3m, I've decided to go with the MacOSX Mozilla? I can't seem to even find launch services on my system. I'll lose the ability to run a few games on java dependent web sites -- which is MSIE's only plus. 2. Can I set this so that it will use other applications besides the OS X defaults? Can I make it start up X-windows and chose an X application? OS X already sort of does this for classic apps. I'm sorry if this isn't really fink related - I can't really tell where Fink ends and Darwin begins and when I look at Apple's web site for Mac OS X help I don't think we're talking the same OS. On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 04:28:00PM -0600, Nicholas Riley wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:28:28PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > > Ahh, clever. Does this just seach the /Applications tree, or will it find > > things I've put as, say, /Volumes/Applications/Internet/Mozilla? If that > > fails, can it be fixed by linking the remote partition into /Applications? > > It consults LaunchServices, which means any application that > LaunchServices has seen (usually /Applications, plus any app that has > ever been opened, viewed, or copied in the Finder by the current > user). > > Using application names is pretty breakable though (Apple's own OS X > installer limitations notwithstanding). open should be using a more > permanent identifier such as the bundle identifier. > > <plug> > > I've written an 'open' replacement called 'launch' which would be a > good candidate for inclusion into Fink. If someone wants to package > it, that would be great. For example, it'd find Mozilla by its bundle > identifier this way: > > % launch -ni org.mozilla.Mozilla > /Volumes/GrayExtra/Extra/Mozilla/Mozilla CFM.app > > launch is essentially a OS X-savvy version of 'file', 'which', and > 'open'. It will open applications, open/print documents, launch URLs, > show file info, etc. > > launch doesn't have any dependencies (works with 10.1 + dev tools) and > is distributed as a gzipped tar-file so there shouldn't be any > packaging issues. > > <http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/#launch> > > </plug> > > -- > =Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley> > Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and > Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
