Re: lenny: how to use iceweasel, ie. x-www-browser from icedove?
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 03/11/08 03:34, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>> On my newly installed lenny, icedove opens links with epiphany instead
>>> of my prefered iceweasel:
>>>
>>> root@e13-v21:~# ll /etc/alternatives/ |grep x-www-browser
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-02-23 22:40 x-www-browser ->
>>> /usr/bin/iceweasel
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2008-02-23 22:40 x-www-browser.1.gz ->
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/iceweasel.1.gz
>>>
>>> How to fix this?
>>
>> If you are implying that you use GNOME, then what you want is:
>> System->Preferences->"Preferred Applications".
>
> I am using KDE. That's why I'm rather upset that icedove doesn't respect
> my system's default settings and instead 'forces' the use of gnome's
> epiphany.
>
> For what it's worth, KDE's kmail respects the system's defaults and
> opens in iceweasel and neither in epiphany nor konqueror.
>
> Johannes
>
>
Did you try to change the setting for .html file association in
Control Center -> KDE Components -> Component Chooser -> Web Browser
You might need to restart kde afterwards, I am not sure about it.
Cheers,
Ivan
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