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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: [DNG] Roxterm default
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:58:57PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:24:56 -0500
> > Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Anyone know how to tell roxterm not to use chrome as its default
> > > browser? I've told xfce, and it's now calling firefox, but roxterm
> > > still thinks that when I mouse onto a URL and click "open in browser"
> > > that I soud use chrome.
> >
> > Just a shot in the dark, as I never used roxterm: Did you
> > update-alternatives?
>
> I found several places to set the default, but missed that one.
> It gave me several things I could set.  I didn't find a 'browser' 
> option, but did find 
>     www-browser
>     x-www-browser
> www-browser pointed to /usr/bin/w3m, which  have never used
> but x-www-browser pointed to chrome.  So I set that.  We'll see next 
> time I have to follow a link from the terminal.


Yes, it worked. I didn't even have to restart the terminal.

-- hendrik