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fhsm

#! Junkie

From: New Hampshire, USA

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 445

Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

$ touch ~/bin/runelinks
$ gedit ~/bin/runelinks

Last edited by fhsm (2009-06-22 03:05:23)

txtmsg

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From: los angeles

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 39

Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

reviving this thread although i'm simply trying to make firefox my default rather than chromium.

$ sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
x-www-browser - auto mode
  link currently points to /home/driscoll/bin/firefox/firefox
/home/driscoll/bin/firefox/firefox - priority 150
/usr/bin/chromium-browser - priority 40
Current 'best' version is '/home/driscoll/bin/firefox/firefox'.

as you can see above, firefox is my x-www-browser but when i right-click "open link" in terminator, the link opens in chromium.

is the problem here that firefox is located in my home dir? should i make a symlink somewhere else and point to it?

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,826

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Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

Hi txtmsg,

if you are using XFCE, you could run

exo-preferred-applications

and check the Browser there.

What happens if you open

x-www-browser

and

xdg-open http://www.crunchbanglinux.org

from terminal?

txtmsg

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From: los angeles

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 39

Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

x-www-browser

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,826

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Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

It creates links to  ~/.local/share/xfce4/helpers/
you find your custom-WebBrowser.desktop there
Probably you have lines there like

X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=/usr/bin/chromium-browser "%s"

X-XFCE-Commands=/usr/bin/chromium-browser "%s"

so you can change them to /usr/bin/firefox "s%"

txtmsg

Member

From: los angeles

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 39

Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

rebooted the machine this morning and the behavior has returned. now i am perplexed.

both of these commands open firefox:

$ xdg-open http://crunchbanglinux.org
$ x-www-browser

and this looks correct:

$ cat .local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
NoDisplay=true
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=X-XFCE-Helper
X-XFCE-Category=WebBrowser
X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=~/bin/firefox/firefox "%s"
Icon=firefox
Name=firefox
X-XFCE-Commands=~/bin/firefox/firefox

yet "open link" in terminator still opens chromium!

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,826

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Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

if you are using bash, you can append this line in .bashrc

export DE=xfce

Save it. Close terminator, open terminator. Terminator then calls bash, and this sets the right environment for the commands in bash. I guess

Last edited by machinebacon (2011-07-08 20:38:55)

txtmsg

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From: los angeles

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 39

Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

machinebacon

#! unstable

From: China

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 6,826

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Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox

txtmsg

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From: los angeles

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 39

Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

$ env | grep DE
DE=xfce
DESKTOP_SESSION=wmii

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop

txtmsg

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From: los angeles

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 39

Re: Make Terminator use eLinks to open ctrl+click links

Also, dealing with the "alternatives" system, I created the following symlinks:

# ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser
# ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser

This didn't solve the problem either. o__O