When starting git-annex assistant with:
git-annex webapp
an unwanted web browser is opened.
How does one change the web browser with which the web interface is displayed?
When starting git-annex assistant with:
git-annex webapp
an unwanted web browser is opened.
How does one change the web browser with which the web interface is displayed?
The web browser is started by running the
xdg-openprogram (or justopenon Mac OS X).xdg-open, in turn, runs the desktop environment's kde-open, gvfs-open, exo-open. Which browser these run is configured in the desktop environment's settings. Which is my goal for the web app; it should open the same browser that other applications in the desktop use.
When there's no desktop environment in use, xdg-open falls back to some default browser, or to what's configured by the BROWSER environment variable.
On my Ubuntu 10.04 machine, ./git-annex-webapp starts Firefox whereas xdg-open starts my configured standard browser, Chrome.
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On my system,
xdg-open http://google.com/opens firefox as desired, butxdg-open file:///tmp/foo.htmltries to load wine! I'm using xfce, and it seems like exo-open is noticing thefile://URL, finding the mime type, and looking it up in~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-html.desktop, which was (annoyingly) created by wine. Deleting those files fixes it.Not sure how you'd make this better. Maybe give xdg-open a URL like
http://localhost:54896/?authfile=...that redirects tofile:///tmp/webapp12345.htmlthat redirects tohttp://localhost:54896/?auth=...?Since git web--browse defaults to firefox on my system (Ubuntu/XMonad), I did this on Ubuntu to get the system default browser.
git config --global web.browser xdg-open
Since I discovered the same behavior mentioned above (git annex webapp tries to use 'winebrowser'). There is an easy way to work with the difference between http url and html files: enter preferences for both:
In ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:
Your preferred browser might be a different one off course. And I agree that this has to be the most logical place to store that information ever..