Re: [arch-general] no desktop: howto change default browser?

Uli Armbruster [2011-09-11T21:50 CEST]:

* clemens fischer [11.09.2011 20:35]:

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Hi,

when using eg. "evince" to view a PDF document, links open in "epiphany", which seems to be a gnome default browser.

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Does somebody know how to change the setting for default-browser when no desktop is used?

Put

export BROWSER=your_browser

into your bashrc, zshrc or into a file you put into /etc/profile.d, depending on what you want.

some application (in my case e.g. google earth) doesn't work correctly by putting BROWSER variable into ~/.zshrc. I've solved by putting the following into ~/.xprofile: BROWSER='/usr/bin/firefox' export BROWSER -- It is perfectly possible, in theory and historically, to have efficient and courteous police, competent and learned judges, and a body of systematic and socially accepted law—and none of these things being furnished by a coercive government. --Murray N. Rothbard