Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Chris Green wrote:
> songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
>> Chris Green wrote:
>> ...
>> > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another
>> > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather
>> > than having to try and unset all the changes it has made.
>> 
>>   Chris, for something like testing i would just set up
>> another user.
>> 
> I guess that's a possible way.  However my use of epiphany tends to be
> "oh, this web page doesn't work in vivaldi, I'll try it in epiphany",
> having to log out and log in to another user to do this rather defeats
> the object.
>
> It might also take me down a never ending trail of 'is it the
> environment/settings or is it the program?'.  :-)
>
> I guess some sort of chrooted environment to install it (epiphany) in
> might work (though still gives the environment/settings question).

  true.  i've not done those sorts of things in a long time since
i'm not having issues like that (i tend to keep things as simple
as possible) and most of my playing around these days are within
virtual environments of python.  my bash .bashrc sets things
up based upon which directories i'm in so all needed environment
variables are managed that way.  all my desktops are set up with
however copies of terminals i want and where each is is saved (but
i need to keep a back up of that because once in a while something
clobbers those).


  songbird