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
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