From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 15:04:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102CF16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:04:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDCD43D48 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:04:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 31248 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2006 02:04:35 +1100 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (210.84.43.234) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Feb 2006 02:04:35 +1100 Message-ID: <43E8B6FE.1050206@meijome.net> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:04:30 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20060207144808.GA6118@vanhoecke.org> In-Reply-To: <20060207144808.GA6118@vanhoecke.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Default browser X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:04:37 -0000 Guido Van Hoecke wrote: [...] > > It guess I should have been more specific. I am using Window Maker as window > manager. I know that KDE has the Component Chooser and Gnome has its > gnome-control-center/preferred applications, but I have not found a window > maker equivalent. Frankly, I do not know if there is such a thing. > > Both KDE and Gnome have been told that I'd like to use linux-opera. Still, when > I click a link in bpm (bsd ports collection manager port), this event seems to > disappear in the eternal bit bucket and nothing happens. When I click a link in > a gaim chat window, mozilla gets launched. Openoffice.org insists upon firefox. > > Why is this so messy? ::shrug:: it is what it is. Even in Windows XP, where you have a central database (the registry) which all programs *should* consult before invoking a browser (or they should use the proper api calls which use the registry), you have so many programs that will simply launch IE instead of, say, Firefox (obviously, MS apps are usually the culprit here ;-) ) > How do I change it? - I think openoffice has some settings to change this. This is how i'd do it: take note of the the binaries being called for the unwanted browswers. Uninstall (or mv [oldbrowser] [oldbrowser].orig ) the browsers you don't want, then simply write wrappers that replace [oldbrowser] for linux-opera. Or , if the calling parameters are the same, just symlink them :) HIH, Beto