F.Gr. wrote: > Uli Armbruster [2011-09-11T21:50 CEST]: > >> 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 That's odd. I tried "env BROWSER=firefox evince <some-PDF-document>", but evince would continue to use epiphany. But thanks for the hint! I wonder why the "$BROWSER standard" isn't honoured by evince. clemens
