How to set default browser in unix REBOL/View
[1/3] from: rjk:bigpond at: 30-Oct-2001 21:46
I am trying REBOL/View under unix (SCO Openserver 5.0.6) and the browse
command does not launch my browser (Netscape 4.7). Is the location/name of
the default browser built into View, and if so, where/what does it look for?
Alternatively, how can I specify the default browser that View should use?
Regards, Robert Kovacic
[2/3] from: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 30-Oct-2001 16:59
RE: [REBOL] How to set default browser in unix REBOL/View
/usr/local/bin/netscape works here.
had to link it by hand because
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape (by suse6.4) does not work ;-)
i hacked a little perl-script to use konqueror,
saved it as /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape :
#!/usr/bin/perl
#netscape -remoteopenURL(/home/volker/rebol/view/local/index.html, new-window)
$_="@ARGV";
print "args $_ \n";
if (/.*\((.*),/){
print "browse $1 \n";
`konqueror 2>/dev/null --silent $1`;
}
elsif (/.*\((.*)\)/){
print "browse $1 \n";
`konqueror 2>/dev/null --silent $1`;
}
else{
print "browse $_ \n";
`konqueror 2>/dev/null --silent $_`;
}
-Volker
[rjk--bigpond--com] wrote:
[3/3] from: jtp:dok at: 30-Oct-2001 18:59
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:46:07PM +1100, Robert Kovacic wrote:
> I am trying REBOL/View under unix (SCO Openserver 5.0.6) and the browse
> command does not launch my browser (Netscape 4.7). Is the location/name of
> the default browser built into View, and if so, where/what does it look for?
> Alternatively, how can I specify the default browser that View should use?
>
> Regards, Robert Kovacic
>
Since I just posted this same question earlier in the day, and received a
fairly quick answer, I'll go ahead and volunteer the information I was
given by Jeff Kreis <[jeff--rebol--net]>.
To quote Jeff:
To find the browser, Unix REBOL/View pays attention to the
MOZILLA_HOME environment variable. Failing that, it looks for
netscape in /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. Yes, the unix
browser determining algorithm is rather simple minded.
So for me, setting MOZILLA_HOME to /opt/gnome/lib/mozilla did the trick.
Yes, it's simple, but what matters is that it works.
Hope this helps, and thanks to Jeff as well.
.troy
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