$BROWSER
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Mon Jun 18 00:45:40 UTC 2007
Michael Klinosky wrote:
> OK. Well, I changed it - still not working. Perhaps an error message will
> help determine the problem:
>
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ which firefox
> /usr/local/bin/firefox
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ export BROWSER="/usr/local/bin/firefox %u"
> (test function in app)
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ execvp(Firefox, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) failed
> with error 2!
I think what Justin said is likely. What's important to know is that
when you export the updated BROWSER variable, it can't influence any
process that came before it.
>>> Furthermore, into what file do I put it? (.bash_profile?)
>> That should work.
>
> I asked because of another issue I'm working on - where to put a command to
> run an app only once per session. I put that command into .bash_profile,
> and then I tried .bashrc. Both times, it would try to run it each time I
> opened a terminal or switched to the VT.
>
> Someone suggested .xsession.
>
> Granted, re-running this isn't a problem - but it just isn't sleek. Or,
> it's non-geeky. :)
Ahh, I see. I don't know how geeky this is, but it ought to work
(which counts for something, right?). If you use Gnome, bring up the
Sessions preference (in FC6 it's at System -> Preferences -> Sessions;
in F7, it's at System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions). On the
Startup tab, you can add the app that you want started. There are
similar tools for KDE, though I don't know them well. Ask and someone
here can surely tell you.
You could use ~/.xsession instead of the Sessions tool if you wanted..
To do that you'd need to create that file (and make it executable
[chmod +x ~/.xsession]). Then, to run your app and start up a gnome
session, you could make the contents something like:
# look for friendly aliens from a nicer part of the universe
/path/to/boinc &
# start gnome
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
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