Hi! On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:04:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > My problem is that I use gnome-terminal to run an instance of > mutt to read my email. I like gnome-terminal for this because > email hot links to web pages are highlighted and underlined *and* > if I cntrl-click on the hot-link, it starts a web browser and > opens the URL. > But, it used to be that the browser was selectable via alternatives. > Now it seems not to be. Gnome 2.6 hit sarge recently, didn't it? What does # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser say? I wouldn't be surprised to find that epiphany listed as the top priority in your case... You can change it by: # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > I'm pretty sure that this is not a function of mutt. Correct. It's the terminal emulator. Or urlview depending on how you use it. > It doesn't seem to exist if I run mutt in a different terminal > emulation window. which other terminal emulators have you tried? (Just curious: the only one that i know of that will handle hyperlinks is gnome-terminal...) > I have hacked a change that works: I replaced /usr/bin/epiphany with a > soft-link of the same name that points to opera. But this is really a > bad way to do what I want. Very very bad indeed. But it probably works :-) > > TIA Total information awareness!? -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. -- Shakespeare, "King Lear"
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