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Re: default web browser



On Fri,17.Apr.09, 08:01:35, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 +0000 (UTC)
> debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> 
> > What does sensible-browser give?
> 
> The "update-alternatives --list sensible-browser" just stated "No
> alternatives for sensible-browser."  
 
That's because sensible-browser is a script which should make a 
"sensible" choice on web browsers (in your case it doesn't so we need to 
find out why).

> Running "sensible-browser" on its own was not possible -- it required a
> site, IE, "sensible-browser http://www.debian.org";, at which point a
> uxterm opened the debian site with lynx.  

Can you please show the output of these commands (as user, not root):

echo $DISPLAY
which x-www-browser

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

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