salome
28 February 2021 21:09
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Hi,
Hi,
I can’t open the links in the browser when there is a link in gtk applications.
Step to treproduce:
open a gtk3 or gtk2 application ( for example pamac, liferea and lxtask in my case)
open a link (for example the source of a feed or the official site’s application or the lxde site in the help–about menu of lxtasks) in the external browser by clicking on it.
it will be opened a new, blank browser instance instead the link
The problem doesn’t occurs with qt applications (in my case , vlc …
This solution doesn’t work:
Hi @salome ,
I use KDE, but I’ve just installed lxtask to test this and mine works flawlessly.
Are you sure you default browser is set correctly?
Or it might be a MIME type association.
Unfortunately, I don’t know where else to check or/and test.
Hope this helps.
Edit:
Accoring to this page :
Alternate way is to add the following line export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox to your ~/.bashrc
So, assuming you use ZSH, the command to make that permanent would be:
$ echo "export BROWSER=<director…
Can someone help me? I think I have to downgrade something, but I don’t know what exactly. @philm Is there a specific package related to the opening of externals links in GTK?