Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives
On 05.04.2020 18:53, Carl Fink wrote:
On
4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
The output above shows epiphany-browser as
being the current selection.
True. But not relevant.
Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser,
but some other mechanism (or
just hardcodes firefox).
I asked what other mechanism could be used in the original, at the
same time I quoted a message from rclone saying that it was trying
to
run /usr/bin/firefox-esr, which is unlikely to be hardcoded.
If I'm getting it right, you are using Xfce, so first place you
should look at is "exo-preferred-applications" [1] applet.
It probably points to a "/usr/bin/sensible-browser" wrapper script
to find a default browser among several "alternatives" links.
"x-www-browser" is not the only default link for a browser, so you
should also check "alternatives" for "gnome-www-browser",
"www-browser" configs.
Also check if environment variable named "$BROWSER" is set. It is
not required to be set, but some console programs could rely on it
and this is the first thing "sensible-browser" script uses to find
your default browser.
Probably because of installation of a "unsupported" firefox package
"alternatives" for a browser were not changed, so you will have to
create additional options for "alternatives" configs, so links would
point to a right browser.
Check out man page for "update-alternatives" to find out how to
create new options for existing configs and manually switch between
them.
[1] https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/preferred-applications
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