On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:52:35PM +0200, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a package where default browser to be used by a program should be > defined in a Makefile. There is firefox typed by default, but it's > always annoying when an app calls not your preferred browser. > There can be default browser defined in Fedora, but how can I call it > from a command line (I searched in alternatives, but without success)? htmlview can be used for the browser, but the generic command is xdg-open. > Btw, there is no default *graphical* text editor. What do you think > could be defined as that? xdg-open could do that too. When opening a text file it will use the corresponding freedesktop application. In fact it could be used to open any type of file/URL. xdg-open will do the right thing in gnome, kde, xfce, and in any environment with /usr/bin/mimeopen from perl-File-MimeInfo, and lastly use $BROWSER htmlview:firefox:mozilla:netscape:links:lynx. -- Pat -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
