Re: [Pan-users] firefox links

[Duncan]

thufir posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:38:17 +0000 as excerpted:

> in preferences, pan is set to use:
> 
> <string name='browser-mode' value='gnome'/>
> <string name='cache-file-extension' value='msg'/>
> <string name='custom-browser' value='firefox'/>
> <string name='custom-mailer' value='thunderbird'/>
> 
> in preferences, pan is set to use GNOME preferences.  However, clicking
> on links doesn't work.  What's the custom command for firefox?

Hmm.  I use kde and with pan set to use kde's browser, it has always 
worked correctly -- including making the transition from konqueror to 
firefox when I switched default browsers in kde.

But setting custom mode and simply setting "firefox" (without the quotes) 
in the text-box works just fine here, as well.

Actually, I had apparently set custom/firefox at some point anyway, as 
when I went to check, that's what it was set at, so I had to switch it 
back to kde and check that still worked, then back to custom, just to be 
sure, but it worked either way.

You can also use any of the firefox options it lists if run in a terminal 
window as firefox --help.  I just tried firefox -new-tab , and that works 
as expected, instead of opening a new window, which is my normal firefox 
preference.

If you have firefox set to open a new tab (instead of a new window) by 
default, presumably you could use firefox -new-window , if preferred for 
links opened from pan.

firefox -new-instance doesn't exactly do what I wanted or expected, but 
it "works", if opening a dialog saying ... "Firefox is already running, 
but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the 
existing Firefox process, or restart your system." ... can be considered 
"working".  (IOW, firefox itself doesn't like running multiple firefox 
processes, and only opens the dialog saying don't do it that way, but the 
switch itself obviously worked.  One wonders why the option is there at 
all, in that case, but whatever.)  Same with -no-remote, except that in 
/that/ case, if it's the first instance and thus runs, no other firefox 
can be opened since it'll pop up the "not responding" dialog instead.

firefox -browser is interesting.  It seems to open up a new window with 
the home page (in my case the new-tab page with a selection of previously 
closed pages), as WELL as a new window with the desired URL.


If none of that works for you, then try a different X-based app just to 
see if /it/ opens properly.  Trying konsole here, it opens, just to the 
shell prompt, however.  Trying kwrite, it opens, with the linked page 
opened as a text file to be edited.  konsole -e links works quite well, 
opening the link in the links text browser in konsole, and konsole -e 
lynx does the same with lynx.

If nothing so much as opens an X-window at all, then it's likely that the 
DISPLAY environmental variable isn't being exported from pan properly, 
perhaps because it is set for pan but not as exportable.  We can tackle 
that in a followup, but do answer this question in that case: How do you 
start pan?  From a menu entry, or ???.

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