Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT
On 01/20/2018 04:42 PM, davidson wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
Caveat: I know nothing about seamonkey,
No problem, I've been using its predecessors since Netscape 4.
and I have never used httrack/webhttrack.
I chose it primarily because I was familiar with its Windows version.
WebHTTrack insists on using Firefox as the User Interface.
Are you certain webhttrack isn't just using x-www-browser, which
happens to be set, via the links in your /etc/alternatives directory,
to firefox?
What does the following tell you?
$ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
It verbosely tells I'm using Firefox ;)
That *VERY* annoying as I use SeaMonkey > 99.9% of the time.
If in fact firefox is the currently selected alternative for
x-www-browser, you can choose another one (interactively) with
# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
If seamonkey is not presently one of the available alternatives for
x-www-browser, you can register it as an alternative like so[1]:
# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser
/path/to/seamonkey 20
If you do in fact need to register seamonkey as an alternative for
x-www-browser, and if you have a seamonkey man page installed, you'll
probably want to register its man page too. You could extend the
command above like so, to accomplish this:
# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser
/path/to/seamonkey 20 --slave
/usr/share/man/man1/x-www-browser.1.gz x-www-browser.1.gz
/path/to/man-page/for/seamonkey.1.gz
You will need to replace /path/to/seamonkey, in the above commands,
with the path to your seamonkey program,
$ type -P seamonkey # print path to seamonkey executable
and replace /path/to/man-page/for/seamonkey.1.gz with the appropriate
path to the man page file:
$ man -w seamonkey # display the path to seamonkey's man page
I went to the website <http://www.httrack.com> and did not find
anything even somewhat relevant.
I attempted to edit usr/bin/webhttrack without benefit.
Searching suggest these locations for possible edits.
Contains:
at line 6: BROWSEREXE=""
edited to: BROWSEREXE="seamonkey"
at line 7: SRCHBROWSEREXE="x-www-browser www-browser iceape mozilla
firefox ...
edited to: SRCHBROWSEREXE="x-www-browser www-browser iceape mozilla
seamonkey firefox ...
My line of questioning/suggestions above was inspired by the prominent
position of "x-www-browser" in the list immediately above.
I saw browser names I recognized and ignored the ones I didn't.
Having just done a web search for "x-www-browser" I should have searched
for the first unknown in what was obviously a prioritized list.
Preliminary searches for "BROWSEREXE" and "SRCHBROWSEREXE" indicates
pursuing them will be educational.
Lastly, regarding the change below, does a *directory*
/usr/bin/seamonkey/ exist on your system?
Yepp. I put it there, so to speak.
When Debian and Mozilla where at odds over browser names I said
"Phooey." I've been using SeaMonkey direct from
<https://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.
Looks a little weird to me. (Not that I would know.)
I do do weird things. Sometimes for valid reasons. Other times it causes
an 'educational experience'.
at line 20: SRCHPATH="$BINWD /usr/local/bin /usr/share/bin
/usr/bin ...
edited to: SRCHPATH="$BINWD /usr/bin/seamonkey/ /usr/local/bin
/usr/share/bin /usr/bin ...
Good luck with your project.
NOTES
1. "20" is a priority. Relatively high numbers mean relatively high
priority. Replace it with whatever numeric priority you fancy. But
note that with "update-alternatives --config" you can manually select
any alternative, regardless of its priority.
Thank you.
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