Uli Armbruster [2011-09-11T21:50 CEST]: > * clemens fischer <ino-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [11.09.2011 > 20:35]: > > Hi, > > > > when using eg. "evince" to view a PDF document, links open in > > "epiphany", which seems to be a gnome default browser. > > [...] > > Does somebody know how to change the setting for default-browser > > when no desktop is used? > > Put > > export BROWSER=your_browser > > into your bashrc, zshrc or into a file you put into /etc/profile.d, > depending on what you want. some application (in my case e.g. google earth) doesn't work correctly by putting BROWSER variable into ~/.zshrc. I've solved by putting the following into ~/.xprofile: BROWSER='/usr/bin/firefox' export BROWSER -- It is perfectly possible, in theory and historically, to have efficient and courteous police, competent and learned judges, and a body of systematic and socially accepted law—and none of these things being furnished by a coercive government. --Murray N. Rothbard