Well what' I would do if possible is to modify the system wide lynx.cfg. That way the fix will benefit all users. -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:37 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: Lynx startup file problem -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried to override the default start URL in $HOME/.lynxrc? This wouldn't solve the problem for you system-wide, but it might prove enough to solve it on a per user basis for those accounts that use lynx. Hth somewhat. Greg On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:15:25AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > This problem has been aggravating me for some time and i've searched > google with no luck, so I hope somebody has the answer. > > I can't start lynx without typing an url on the command line; it > complains that it can't find http://www.eauw.local. That url is nowhere > in my lynx.cfg and I can't find it as an environment variable. When I try > to change it in the lynx.cfg, it is ignored and I get the same error. Can > somebody tell me what to do about this please?!!! I'm running debian > unstable. For a while I couldn't even type lynx google but had to type > the whole url but somewhere along the line that at least seems to have > fixed itself. > > Tia. > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmPJoIACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDsjQCgymRHebhteB5uhuoCgEkfpYzf B6oAnRVREio2FBLyRzsxtKaPCmBd1hkS =/T/l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup