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Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives
Date	2020-04-05 14:40 +0200
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On Du, 05 apr 20, 07:35:00, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > 
> > Please post the output of
> > 
> >     update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> 
> carlf@debian-NUCi5:~$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> There are 4 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
> 
>   Selection    Path                       Priority   Status
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> * 0            /usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85        auto mode
>   1            /usr/bin/chromium           40        manual mode
>   2            /usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85        manual mode
>   3            /usr/bin/firefox            20        manual mode
>   4            /usr/bin/surf               30        manual mode
> 
> Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 
> 
> 
> 
> Note that the current selection 3 was added after I posted (by manually
> creating a .desktop file).  And that doing that had no effect on how rclone
> reacted--it still tried to launch a nonexistent firefox-esr.

The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current selection.

Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or 
just hardcodes firefox).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Thread

x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-04 18:50 +0200
  Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 08:20 +0200
    Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 13:40 +0200
      Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 14:40 +0200
        Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-04-05 16:00 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-05 18:00 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 20:10 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
              Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 10:00 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-04-06 11:50 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 12:20 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-06 12:40 +0200

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