Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-06 Thread Nicolas George
Andrei POPESCU (12020-04-06): > Probably a case of competing standards. That, and a case of gambit pileup when software try to be smart, to out-smart the other software implementing the other standards to make them interact with their own, while the other software do exactly the same, and end up

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 apr 20, 09:46:50, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have > >> so many overlapping ways to register default applications? > > > > Probably a case of competing standards. > > Seems more like

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have >> so many overlapping ways to register default applications? > > Probably a case of competing standards. Seems more like the distinction between a user-defined preference

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 apr 20, 16:20:42, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:03:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > > If I'm getting it right, you are using Xfce, so first place you should > > look at is "exo-preferred-applications" [1] applet. > > And that was it. Thank you. Now if only

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 10:52:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Is it worth running rclone config with -vv, and --log-file pointing > somewhere? The documentation suggests this will show what rclone is > trying to do. Not any more, since my ln -s trick worked. Thanks for the suggestions, though.

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:03:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > If I'm getting it right, you are using Xfce, so first place you should > look at is "exo-preferred-applications" [1] applet. And that was it. Thank you. Now if only rclone actually did what I needed This is getting

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 05.04.2020 18:53, Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current selection. > True. But not relevant. >> Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or >> just hardcodes firefox). >> > I asked

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 09:53:13 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current > > selection. > True. But not relevant. > > Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or > > just hardcodes

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Carl Fink
On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current selection. True. But not relevant. Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or just hardcodes firefox). I asked what other mechanism could be used in the original,

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 apr 20, 07:35:00, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Please post the output of > > > > update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > > carlf@debian-NUCi5:~$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > There are 4 choices for

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:32:06, Carl Fink wrote: > > So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran > > update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't > > even include firefox-esr: > >

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:32:06, Carl Fink wrote: > So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran > update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't > even include firefox-esr: This makes no sense to me, could you please rephrase? What browser do you

x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

2020-04-04 Thread Carl Fink
So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't even include firefox-esr: root@debian-NUCi5:~# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser /usr/bin/chromium /usr/bin/epiphany-browser /usr/bin/firefox