alternatives per user WAS: Changing the "default" web-browser

[Bram Mertens <bram-mertens@linux.be>]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 12:22 +0000, Rhys Hardwick wrote:
> Francesco wrote:
> > Try this:
> > 
> > update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> > 
> > But this is for X I don't know if it functions for Gnome, too.
> 
> 
> 
> In my experience, this worked fine for KDE, and should also work fine 
> for Gnome.

I have a related question:

I would like to set a different alternative for a regular user. As I
understand from man update-alternatives this is the idea behind the
alternatives system. However only root can make (system-wide) changes to
the alternatives system.

Is there a way to have x-www-browser point to /home/M8ram/bin/startopera
for the user m8ram while pointing to /usr/bin/opera [1] for all other
users?

TIA

Bram

[1] I had to add this alternative with:
# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser \
x-www-browser /usr/bin/opera 140
(debian testing, opera version 8.0-20050104.5)
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