Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc.
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:01:18 Christian Seiler wrote:
> The 'default browser' is actually not just a single setting. There are
> four main settings that are typically related to the question of
> 'default browser': what program is associated with the HTTP and HTTPS
> protocols and what program should open HTML and XHTML files. The
> typical checkboxes in programs such as Chromium that change this
> setting typically change all four (maybe some others as well), but you
> can in fact change them individually if you like. (Iceweasel/Firefox
> also includes text/xml for generic XML files in this list, but I'm
> going to skip that here, because I don't think it's sensible to open
> generic XML files in browsers.)
This is a late post, I know.
You can prevent *any* program from changing the setting by isolating the
involved file (if all else fails use strace or another trace), and then
use sudo chattr +i FILE .
Sincerely, David
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