Fluxbox 23.5 Changing Default Browser Button to Falkon [Solved]

[jno]

Hi, first post and apologies, I did already search for an answer and couldn't find one hence my post here.

The default browser button to launch the browser along the bottom of the screen. Mine is set to Firefox but I would prefer Falkon as it is a little bit faster.

How do I change the browser button to load Falkon instead of Firefox?

Thank you!

[Eadwine Rose]

According to the forum rules (please read): Please provide full Quick System Info, use copy for forum button, no edits.
LiveUSB version is OK if needed.

[jno]

Here we go (copy/paste - hope that is OK):

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[Melber]

Presuming you are using the default tint2 panel, edit the following line under # Button 4 in the file ~/.config/tint2/tin2trc

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button_lclick_command = sensible-browser

to

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button_lclick_command = falkon

If you're using a different tint2 panel, edit the appropriate tint2rc file.

[jno]

Presuming you are using the default tint2 panel, edit the following line under # Button 4 in the file ~/.config/tint2/tin2trc

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button_lclick_command = sensible-browser

to

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button_lclick_command = falkon

If you're using a different tint2 panel, edit the appropriate tint2rc file.

Thank you, it worked. I had to edit this using MX Tweak though. Loading Tint2 from the menu did nothing, no idea why. I set it up as follows:

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button_lclick_command = sensible-browser
button_rclick_command = falkon

This loads Falkon with the right button and Firefox with the left button.

[Melber]

I had to edit this using MX Tweak though. Loading Tint2 from the menu did nothing, no idea why.

Not exactly sure what you mean here.

You should be able to use Tint2 Manager to edit the config files, either the file directly with the "edit" button or via gui with the "config" button.



Or you can just open the config file directly in featherpad.

Anyway, glad it's working. Feel free to marked the topic as solved by clicking the tick icon on the relevant post.

[siamhie]

Thank you, it worked. I had to edit this using MX Tweak though. Loading Tint2 from the menu did nothing, no idea why. I set it up as follows:

The Tint2 entry starts the toolbar and Tint2 Manager starts the configuration manager for Tint2 under the System submenu.

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[exec] (Tint2 Manager ) { /usr/bin/mxfb-tint2-manager } Categories=System;X-MXFB-Tools;
[exec] (Tint2 ) { tint2 } Categories=System;

[jno]

Thank you, it worked. I had to edit this using MX Tweak though. Loading Tint2 from the menu did nothing, no idea why. I set it up as follows:

The Tint2 entry starts the toolbar and Tint2 Manager starts the configuration manager for Tint2 under the System submenu.

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[exec] (Tint2 Manager ) { /usr/bin/mxfb-tint2-manager } Categories=System;X-MXFB-Tools;
[exec] (Tint2 ) { tint2 } Categories=System;

Thanks but no toolbar for me. On my machine when I select Tint2 (Tint 2 panel) from the app selector (aka Start menu) I only see a slight flicker along the bottom and nothing really happens. It could well be my Netbook running on 1024x600 resolution though.

Thanks for the support, always appreciated.

[siamhie]

Thank you, it worked. I had to edit this using MX Tweak though. Loading Tint2 from the menu did nothing, no idea why. I set it up as follows:

The Tint2 entry starts the toolbar and Tint2 Manager starts the configuration manager for Tint2 under the System submenu.

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[exec] (Tint2 Manager ) { /usr/bin/mxfb-tint2-manager } Categories=System;X-MXFB-Tools;
[exec] (Tint2 ) { tint2 } Categories=System;

Thanks but no toolbar for me. On my machine when I select Tint2 (Tint 2 panel) from the app selector (aka Start menu) I only see a slight flicker along the bottom and nothing really happens. It could well be my Netbook running on 1024x600 resolution though.

Thanks for the support, always appreciated.

Tint2 is the default toolbar for fluxbox. I use the built-in toolbar from fluxbox myself. If I select Tint2 from the menu, then the Tint2 toolbar will appear.

fluxbox's toolbar

[/df]

Setting some panel, menu or other shortcut icon(s) may be enough for OP, but others might want a more general solution.

Debian has "solved" the problem of which browser to run several times.

An unwritten rule says that a program may try to use the value of the BROWSER environment variable when starting a web browser (maybe now previously unwritten).

sensible-browser is one such program.

But that seems like a last resort. It tries to open the passed URL with $BROWSER, gnome-www-browser, x-www-browser, "gnome-terminal www-browser", sensible-terminal www-browser, www-browser (but the Gnome-ish ones only in a Gnome session, so generally not applicable here, and this is "secret knowledge" from one code version that may change or have changed).

In turn, x-www-browser is the name for the browser set by the _alternatives_ system, which is a general **system-wide** solution in the Debian _dpkg_ installer to the problem of which actual program to run for a certain generic action. You can read its mind:

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$ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
x-www-browser - auto mode
  link best version is /usr/bin/seamonkey
  link currently points to /usr/bin/seamonkey
  link x-www-browser is /usr/bin/x-www-browser
  slave x-www-browser.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/x-www-browser.1.gz
/usr/bin/firefox-esr - priority 70
  slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/firefox-esr.1.gz
/usr/bin/mx-viewer - priority 20
/usr/bin/seamonkey - priority 75
$

Or install and run the _galternatives_ GUI tool.

If OP generally wants Falkon and that should apply to all accounts on the system, select it using

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sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Or if this a per-user issue, export BROWSER=falkon (maybe use its full pathname) in .profile.

Then specify Firefox, or whatever, explicitly when wanted.

Off-topic, it's time these forums understood Markdown, or at least in-line [icode]code tags[/icode]. And why doesn't

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have any effect (or even font=Georgia as in the forum editor tooltip)?