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Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT

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On 01/20/2018 04:42 PM, davidson wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> Caveat: I know nothing about seamonkey,

No problem, I've been using its predecessors since Netscape 4.

> and I have never used httrack/webhttrack.

I chose it primarily because I was familiar with its Windows version.

> 
>> WebHTTrack insists on using Firefox as the User Interface.
> 
> Are you certain webhttrack isn't just using x-www-browser, which
> happens to be set, via the links in your /etc/alternatives directory,
> to firefox?
> 
> What does the following tell you?
> 
>   $ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

It verbosely tells I'm using Firefox ;)

> 
>> That *VERY* annoying as I use SeaMonkey > 99.9% of the time.
> 
> If in fact firefox is the currently selected alternative for
> x-www-browser, you can choose another one (interactively) with
> 
>   # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> 
> If seamonkey is not presently one of the available alternatives for
> x-www-browser, you can register it as an alternative like so[1]:
> 
>   # update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser 
> /path/to/seamonkey 20
> 
> If you do in fact need to register seamonkey as an alternative for
> x-www-browser, and if you have a seamonkey man page installed, you'll
> probably want to register its man page too. You could extend the
> command above like so, to accomplish this:
> 
>   # update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser
>     /path/to/seamonkey 20 --slave
>     /usr/share/man/man1/x-www-browser.1.gz x-www-browser.1.gz
>     /path/to/man-page/for/seamonkey.1.gz
> 
> You will need to replace /path/to/seamonkey, in the above commands,
> with the path to your seamonkey program,
> 
>   $ type -P seamonkey # print path to seamonkey executable
> 
> and replace /path/to/man-page/for/seamonkey.1.gz with the appropriate
> path to the man page file:
> 
>   $ man -w seamonkey # display the path to seamonkey's man page
> 
>> I went to the website <http://www.httrack.com> and did not find 
>> anything even somewhat relevant.
>>
>> I attempted to edit usr/bin/webhttrack without benefit.
>> Searching suggest these locations for possible edits.
>>
>> Contains:
>> at line 6:    BROWSEREXE=""
>> edited to:    BROWSEREXE="seamonkey"
>>
>> at line 7:    SRCHBROWSEREXE="x-www-browser www-browser iceape mozilla 
>> firefox ...
>> edited to:    SRCHBROWSEREXE="x-www-browser www-browser iceape mozilla 
>> seamonkey firefox ...
> 
> My line of questioning/suggestions above was inspired by the prominent
> position of "x-www-browser" in the list immediately above.

I saw browser names I recognized and ignored the ones I didn't.
Having just done a web search for "x-www-browser" I should have searched 
for the first unknown in what was obviously a prioritized list.

Preliminary searches for "BROWSEREXE" and "SRCHBROWSEREXE" indicates 
pursuing them will be educational.

> 
> Lastly, regarding the change below, does a *directory*
> /usr/bin/seamonkey/ exist on your system?

Yepp. I put it there, so to speak.
When Debian and Mozilla where at odds over browser names I said 
"Phooey." I've been using SeaMonkey direct from 
<https://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.

> Looks a little weird to me. (Not that I would know.)

I do do weird things. Sometimes for valid reasons. Other times it causes 
an 'educational experience'.

> 
>> at line 20:    SRCHPATH="$BINWD /usr/local/bin /usr/share/bin 
>> /usr/bin  ...
>> edited to:    SRCHPATH="$BINWD /usr/bin/seamonkey/ /usr/local/bin 
>> /usr/share/bin /usr/bin ...
> 
> Good luck with your project.
> 
> NOTES
> 
> 1. "20" is a priority. Relatively high numbers mean relatively high
> priority. Replace it with whatever numeric priority you fancy. But
> note that with "update-alternatives --config" you can manually select
> any alternative, regardless of its priority.

Thank you.

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Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-01-20 17:40 +0100
  Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-20 23:20 +0100
    Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-01-21 11:50 +0100
      [SUCCESS!] Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-01-21 12:40 +0100
  Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-01-21 11:20 +0100
    Re: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-01-21 12:50 +0100

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