Todd:
Out of curiosity, what app is it?
BOINC (a distributed processing system).
I crunch on SETI, mostly - I love space stuff!
I tried
export BROWSER=Firefox
and
export BROWSER="Firefox %u"
Neither work.
Case-sensitivity may be the problem. Firefox is not the same as
firefox. You may also need to provide a full path, depending on what
the app that's using $BROWSER has set its PATH to.
OK. Well, I changed it - still not working. Perhaps an error message
will help determine the problem:
[mpk@d500 .BOINC]$ which firefox
/usr/local/bin/firefox
[mpk@d500 .BOINC]$ export BROWSER="/usr/local/bin/firefox %u"
(test function in app)
[mpk@d500 .BOINC]$ execvp(Firefox, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/)
failed with error 2!
[mpk@d500 .BOINC]$ export BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/firefox
(test function in app)
[mpk@d500 .BOINC]$ execvp(Firefox, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/)
failed with error 2!
Nothing happens in the browser.
Furthermore, into what file do I put it? (.bash_profile?)
That should work.
I asked because of another issue I'm working on - where to put a command
to run an app only once per session. I put that command into
.bash_profile, and then I tried .bashrc. Both times, it would try to run
it each time I opened a terminal or switched to the VT.
Someone suggested .xsession.
Granted, re-running this isn't a problem - but it just isn't sleek. Or,
it's non-geeky. :)
