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[ILUG] KDE Default Browser...

[ILUG] KDE Default Browser...

Kiall Mac Innes kiall at snoopie.org
Thu Feb 24 09:01:16 GMT 2005


Barry O'Donovan wrote:

>On Wednesday 23 February 2005 01:04, Kiall Mac Innes wrote:
>  
>
>>if it was only ever that simple :) came accross that info somewhere
>>along my travels... sadly mandrake seems to have removed the "Web
>>Browser" section from components (it doesnt seem to have moved
>>anywhere else in kde control center or mandrake control center)
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Strange - why would Mandrake do this?
>
>You can try by-passing the Control Centre interface. For the most part, 
>it is just a front-end to the many configuration files anyway.
>
>The one you'll want is:
>
>~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
>
>Find the section headed "[General]"
>
>and add the line:
>
>BrowserApplication=!firefox
>
>right after the section heading. If it already exists just change it to 
>the above.
>
>Hope this helps (not that I neccessarily approve of changing from 
>Konqueror to Firefox - but that's a whole other debae ;) )
>
>Regards,
>Barry
>
>  
>
Humm well that seems to have taken no effect on anything :) (there was 
no [General] Section so i created one...) also tryed full path with a nd 
without quotes.. konq just doesnt wanna give up!

any more ideas?

Thanks..
Kiall



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