Re: Switching Konqueror between proxy and non-proxy locations
On Friday 11 March 2005 16:07, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:39:34PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> > I have two laptops which I need to configure so that they can easily be
> > switched between a location where they require a proxy to reach the
> > outside world from Konqueror and one where they do not. I will have
> > a set of scripts which handle the change of IP addresses (one is static
> > the other dhcp) and I would like to update Konqueror as well to reflect
> > the proxy requirement. The one with the proxy is the one with static
> > IP addresses.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas?
>
> I have konquereor configured to use the http_proxy environment
> variable, and source /etc/use-proxy in my shell startup scripts and
> the Xsession. /etc/use-proxy is generated by the network startup
> scripts to contain the appropriate code to set the environment.
An alternative for configuration items where the application itself cannot be
persuaded to use a shell environment, is this:
http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#shell_expansion
Cheers,
Kevin
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