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Re: Launching URL from Gnome-terminal



on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:46:34AM -0800, Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:04:17AM -0600, David Rose (david@sxsw.com) wrote:
> >
> > > That said... how does one change the default browser for gnome-terminal links
> > > to something other than Mozilla (as it is on my boxen)?
> > 
> > I would assume this is one of the gnome-handlers, though I don't use
> > GNOME.  Try mucking with ~/.gnome/Gnome under [URL Handlers].
> > 
> > ...and if I'm wrong, let me know ;-)
> 
> You want ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote :
> 
> [Mozilla]
> filename=mozilla
> 
> Change the filename= line to be whatever browser you want to launch.
> 
> There are also some things in the Gnome Control Center that may affect
> this. I recall there's a panel in there for URL handlers. You could
> probably sidestep gnome-moz-remote altogether that way. Unfortunately,
> I'm not at my Debian machine at the moment, so I can't check.

Incidentally, how do you invoke the control center independent of GNOME?
I use WindowMaker, and don't care for GNOME, but prefer Galeon for my
browser.  Certain configs must be done through GNOME rather than Galeon.

Peace.

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