xffm v rox and changing default programs

[mark_taber]

Thanks for that tip...my preferred browser is Epiphany; I was able to
change it in my bash profile, and voila!

Thanks again,
Mark Taber

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 22:54 -0500, Erik Harrison wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:10:58 -0800 (PST), Larry Fiske
> <thegreatlarro at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > i've browsed the user manuals and can't find anything about these 2 items:
> > 
> > 1) i'd like to use xffm as a file manager, but rox-filer seems to load, how can
> > i change over to xffm?
> 
> In what context does Rox load - what do you open it from? Is it a
> launcher on the panel? Folder on the Rox desktop? How do you launch
> your filemanager?
> 
> > 
> > 2) where can i change default programs for certain actions?  the help files
> > come up using mozilla-browser, i'd like to use firefox instead, where do i make
> > that change?
> 
> Since Xfce is very moduler, the script that launches the browser
> cannot depend on xffm being there. As such, it actually doesn't use
> xffm to determine the default browser - instead it checks the BROWSER
> environment variable, and if that isn't there, tries mozilla, then a
> couple of other defaults. You could set your BROWSER environment
> variable to solve this.
> 
> > 
> > =====
> > --
> > Later (c),
> > Larry Fiske
> > thegreatlarro at yahoo.com
> > 
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