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Kris

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 86

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Standart Browser to Firefox?

Hi!

Now I'm close to a perfekt system with Arch 0.7.2 and Openbox.

But i have a problem: when I try to open URL's in Gaim, Evolution, X-Chat and so on, so they wanna open the URL's in Mozilla, but Mozilla isn't installed, and i got an error.
How do I do so the programs open all URL's in Firefox instead? 

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"Penquins, Penquins, über alles!"

allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

with gaim, I know you set it manually in the preferences. Not sure about the others. You can try setting the BROWSER env. var. and see if they respect that. Or you could just symlink mozilla to firefox.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

I think the gnome control panel has a setting for the default browser.

Kris

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 86

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Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

allucid @
I'll see on that

snowman @
I'm using OpenBox, not Gnome 

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"Penquins, Penquins, über alles!"

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

snowman @
I'm using OpenBox, not Gnome 

Sorry, I missed that part. :oops:

Stinky

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From: The Colony, TX

Registered: 2004-05-28

Posts: 187

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

snowman @
I'm using OpenBox, not Gnome 

I use OpenBox also, but I still had to use the gnome control panel to set the default browser.  It was the only way I could get it to work.  Now when I click a link in evolution, it opens it in a new tab in firefox.

JoyFM

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From: potsdam

Registered: 2007-01-03

Posts: 27

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Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

i found something intressting in the gentoo wiki
just run these commands

$ gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "firefox %s"
$ gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command "firefox %s"

and xchat should use firefox ^^

more information : http://gentoo-wiki.com/Integrate_xchat_with_firefox

EDIT: note! you have to be gconf installed

skale

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 146

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

I bet you have a "Games" section, with some dubious games like "Crack-Attack" and "Quake".  If so, read on...

Ah, no, openbox has it's own default menu, which may or may not contain any programs you actually have installed.  The remedy is

pacman -S menumaker

followed by (as yourself, not root)

mmaker -f openbox

Check the wiki for help.

IF it doesn't work ( which it did not in my case), you will have to edit the .config/openbox/menu.xml ( wiki again).  You don't need to know XML really, just change the Label= and the command in between the <execute>s to whatever you need.  Be sure to set the terminal right.

tbroderick

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 45

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

export BROWSER="firefox"

In your ~/.bashrc might work.

Phenax

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Registered: 2007-01-07

Posts: 21

Re: Standart Browser to Firefox?

Make a symlink

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