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



On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:36:21 +0100, Bram Mertens <bram-mertens@linux.be> wrote:
> 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?

According to /usr/bin/sensible-browser, you can set the BROWSER
environment variable for this.  In fact, you can specify a
colon-separated list of browsers in this variable, and it'll take the
first one it finds and that start successfully.

-- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com



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