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Hey everyone, first post here.
I recently started using midori to get my hands on webkit, and it seems stable enough ::knocks on wood:: to possibly use as a default browser. webkit is FAST and I really like the GTK look and just the overall streamlined feel of it. I know it's only version 0.2.1, but i think it has some serious potential.
So my question is as follows: I was wondering where the symlink is to set midori as the default so when I open pages in irssi or finch, arch opens midori rather than shiretoko. I hunted through the google wastelands and the forums here for a while for at least related issues and came up short. I apologize in advance if something like this has been covered already, though.
In a nutshell, I don't know how the system handles requests for a browser open. On Debian I think it was x-www-browser in /etc/alternatives, however, arch doesn't have a setup like this. In any case, I'm sure the way arch handles it much better than Debian and thus will make perfect sense once I figure it out. I'm using openbox as my only wm/desktop environment. I suspect the setting is a system wide one in /etc, but I'm stuck.
Thanks in advance!
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ZaQ thanks for the link, however, I don't think that's what I'm looking for. My (user) ~/.bashrc doesn't define a default browser so a simple export won't cause a system-wide change.
How does bash/terminator know to open firefox?
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Depends on your terminal. I use urxvt and this is being set up like this in ~/.Xdefaults
urxvt*perl-ext-common: default,matcher,clipboard
urxvt*urlLauncher: midori
urxvt*matcher.button: 2
Other terminals usually have an option as well to set the default browser, I guess. But setting the BROWSER variable ain't no mistake!
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for the record
adding export BROWSER=/usr/bin/midori to ~/.bash_profile resolved this. thanks ZaQ
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:d
Last edited by ZaQ (2009-12-16 22:26:38)
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