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bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

set up default apps

Hi...

Could someone please let me know how to set up default apps ?
(Arch 0.7 / Xfce 4.2)

I've tried to edit ~/.bashrc (for firefox only) but no succes... : (
export BROWSER='firefox'

Thanks in advance for help...

Would be great to get info for main apps (evolution, ff, oo, etc...)

Bye

miqorz

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Registered: 2004-12-31

Posts: 475

Re: set up default apps

You don't need the export line in .bashrc.

Just, "BROWSER="firefox".

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bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: set up default apps

Hi...

Thanks for help miqorz...

unforunately, no change... : (

as there is no stupid question in the newbie area, is there any issue w/ the " or ' ?
i've seen something somewhere looking like BROWSER='firefox' &
you wrote "firefox"... anyway, i've tried both but...

btw, as i don't have any idea of what it means, ~/.bashrc contains the following :

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[u@h W]$ '

doesn't look like browser related but ...

thanks in advance

cheers

m

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: set up default apps

try:

export BROWSER="firefox"

If you also want to set your default editor and pager, use the EDITOR and the PAGER variables.

As to:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[u@h W]$ '

alias is a shorthand.  Each time you type 'ls', bash interprets that as 'ls --color=auto'
PS1 is an enviromment variable to customize your prompt.