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rek769
I have installed Seamonkey browser and have set it (as user and root) to be the default browser. Clicking links from within the Seamonkey email or rss clients results in links opening in Seamonkey as expected. Clicking links from within any other application results in Firefox being launched. I have set the default browser to point at a desktop file I made for Seamonkey and I have also tried setting it directly to the Seamonkey executable file with the same results. Any ideas on how to correct this so that links clicked from any application use Seamonkey? Thanks in advance.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by rek769.
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PPC
It may depend on the contents of the .desktop file you created… Don’t you already have a .desktop file for seamonkey? Sorry I’m not in a computer with seamonkey installed…
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caprea
Is seamonkey also set to the default browser in the preferences of seamonkey ?
Give an example in which application this doesn’t work, please. I just tried it and see no problems,
but installed seamonkey with the package installer and a desktop file was made by itself in /usr/share/applications.
Also had to set seamonkey in the preferences to default for browser and mail.
Dave
That app is mainly to set the default for antiX applications. (Ex: the menu, control centre, html help file links, etc)
There is a small function to try and set the defaults for other apps via mimeapps.list but this does not work for all other applications and likely is outdated.
You may be able to fix this in the alternatives configuration program, but if you find a command line way to fix the issue it likely can be added to the preferred applications program.Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
@Dave- would exo-preferred-applications, available in the exo-utils package be useful, for setting a system wide preference for browser, e-mail client, terminal and file manager?
I can try make a similar to that app, in yad, to edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list, at least for browser and e-mail client… I haven’t really checked out how that config file works…
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would this work, for choosing an internet browser?sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browserEdit2:
If the update-alternatives works, a command to set seamonkey directly would be something like this (adjust according to the path to seamonkey’s binnary):
sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /opt/seamonkey/seamonkey-This seems to work. I performed that change, to be on the safe side, I logged out and back in. I created a text file with a web address example:
https://www.antixforum.com/
and opened that text file with nano text editor. When I right clicked the link and selected to open it in the browser, the browser I selected using update-alternatives came up.
One exception is Mozilla Thunderbird, you have to search on-line how to manually configure the browser that is used when you click a link inside Thunderbird. By default it always uses Firefox, even when it complains that’s not the default browser (hum… it smells like something Microsoft would try to pull on users…)P.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by PPC.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by PPC.
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Dave
Last time I researched it (which was for antiX 19 release IIRC) there were multiple ways to set the defaults.
– mimeapps.list, mimeinfo.cache, (/usr/share/applications:/usr/local/share/applications/:~/:~/.config/:~/.config/xdg/:~/.local/share/applications/:~/.local/share/xdg:etc…) And not every program used the same file and/or had different priorities on the files.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.1.html
– update alternatives (debian)
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives
– exo-* (xfce)
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/startThen there are/was the kde programs which utilized the kde preferred applications stack. I think they are all using the updated xdg spec at this time. Gnome apps were the same way IIRC.
There are others that do not adhere to anything and are on their own for defaults (thunderbird was one as far as I remember).Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
Brian Masinick
Regarding the connection between Thunderbird and Firefox, both of them represent the Email and Web Browser components previously used in Seamonkey. I suspect they were hard coded relationships, though the ability to override this ought to be available, but they don’t tend to share it without being asked.
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Brian Masinickrek769
Is seamonkey also set to the default browser in the preferences of seamonkey ?
Give an example in which application this doesn’t work, please. I just tried it and see no problems,
but installed seamonkey with the package installer and a desktop file was made by itself in /usr/share/applications.
Also had to set seamonkey in the preferences to default for browser and mail.Well, that was easy…I opened Seamonkey preferences and found a little button to “Set Seamonkey as Default Browser”. I did that and problem is now solved.
Prior, if I clicked a link in the PDF reader or in Libreoffice, Firefox would open instead…
Interesting that the primary default apps chooser did not do the trick as I expected…thanks for all your replies!
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