Re: [Evolution] Launching browser from evo under gnome (Debian)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I'm not sure why you're setting BROWSER, that has nothing to do with it, it is NOT used by gnome or evolution.

Unless your debian script 'sensible-browser' uses it.  Perhaps just tell gnome to use the real thing directly instead would help (i.e. gnome-moz-remote).

But if you must continue to use BROWSER, you're probably setting it in the wrong place, it needs to go in your xsession file (normally ~/.xsession but it could also be .xinitrc), before you start your session manager, not in .bashrc.


On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:14 -0500, David Mohr wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am having trouble making evolution launch the correct browser. I read
> the email yesterday from guenther about how to fix this problem and I
> followed all the steps with no change, still galeon is launched instead
> of firefox.
> Now, I did some testing and it turns out that everything works fine when
> I run evo from the command line, but if I start it from a gnome-shortcut
> or the launch applications menu, it chooses the wrong browser! I guess
> this might be a debian bug, but I thought I'd ask here first.
>
> System information: I'm running debian unstable, pretty up-to-date (at
> least once a month a dist-upgrade), evolution 1.4.6, gnome 2.2 and use
> firefox as my browser.
> This is what I checked
> - $BROWSER is set to firefox
> - in gnome-control-center I have set sensible-browser (debian script) as
> a browser, which calls firefox
> - checked through gconf-editor that the keys in
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown as well as
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http are set (to sensible-browser)
> - checked ~/.gnome/Gnome and there default-show is set to
> gnome-moz-remote which also calls firefox
>
> Why would starting evo from gnome make any difference? I don't know
> enough about gnome I guess but it does puzzle me. Any ideas?
>
> Bye,
> David
>
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