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Re: icedove



On Wed,08.Oct.08, 01:21:01, andy baxter wrote:
> John Lindsay wrote:
>> I have just switched over to Debian. I like it a lot better than openSuse 
>> and my wife likes it as well. In icedove, if i click on a url it opens up 
>> the default web browser. I would much prefer it to open up the Iceweasel 
>> browser which is my preferred browser. Where in icedove can I change it to 
>> open iceweasel?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> John
>>
>>
> You need to change the links in /etc/alternatives. The relevant ones are:
>
> x-www-browser
> and x-www-browser.1.gz (if you want the manual page to work)
>
> ask back if you don't know how to do this.

Those links should never be edited by hand. As root run

update-alternative --config x-www-browser

and you will be presented with a nice list to select your default 
browser.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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