[KLUG Members] More RH8.0 impressions

[Bruce Smith]

(I hate replying to myself)  :-)

> > > >>>>>5. I miss Galeon, and this mozilla is too old to install it.  That is
> > > >>>>>disappointing.  I'm off to fight a small war with RPM....
> > > >>>>Galeon doesn't install by default, but it is on the RH 8 CD's.
> > > >>Ok, I went and found it.  Installed,  but setting web-browser to galeon
> > > >>in prefferred-applications didn't make it come up when I clicked
> > > >>web-browser.  I still got mozilla.  So whats the point?  Galeon starts
> > > >>from the galeon icon just fine.
> > > >Yup, I have the same problem here.  At least when I click a link in
> > > >evolution, it starts Galeon.
> > > 
> > > grr...  Oh, well.  Thier generic webbrowser icon is stupid anyway.
> > 
> > OTOH, when I click on a link in the terminal window I get Mozilla.
> > Something is definitely hosed.

After reverse-engineering the htmlview script, here is a fix for all
default browsing applications:

  echo "X11BROWSER=/usr/bin/galeon" > ~/.htmlviewrc

I have no idea why the Gnome preferences doesn't do this.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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