On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 02:36:00PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Not sure if this is the appropriate list for this but I couldn't find a > urlscan list. > > I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with their version of Mutt 1.5.17, urlscan > 0.5.6, and Firefox 3.6.6 just upgraded from 3.0.x. Prior to the upgrade > ctl-b called firefox. After the upgrade it called a text based browser > that I thought was Lynx except that Lynx isn't installed on my system.
Maybe it's elinks.
> The urlscan README says to set the environment variable
>
> export BROWSER=/usr/bin/xxxxxxxxx
>
> Which makes sense and works but leaves the question: why is it
> neccessary all of a sudden? It wasn't when I ran FF 3.0.x.
I'm not sure how it's handled by Ubuntu (I only know Debian), but
it looks like urlscan calls sensible-browser, which calls the
"correct" browser. You should be able to change it with
update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
Another possibility could be, that $DISPLAY is not set, thus
sensible-browser thinks it can't launch a X based browser (I'm
not entirely sure, I'm no expert regarding sensible-browser).
Hope this helps,
Simon
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