$BROWSER

[Michael Klinosky]

Todd:
> Out of curiosity, what app is it?

BOINC  (a distributed processing system).

I crunch on SETI, mostly - I love space stuff!

>> I tried
>> export BROWSER=Firefox
>> and
>> export BROWSER="Firefox %u"
>> Neither work.
> 
> Case-sensitivity may be the problem.  Firefox is not the same as
> firefox.  You may also need to provide a full path, depending on what
> the app that's using $BROWSER has set its PATH to.

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!

[mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ export BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/firefox
(test function in app)
[mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ execvp(Firefox, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) 
failed with error 2!

Nothing happens in the browser.

>> 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.  :)