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it is very annoying to have ones overrides overridden; see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25381304/why-type-cd-on-mac-os-states-that-cd-is-a-function
author | Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com> |
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date | Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:02:17 -0800 |
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#!/bin/bash # To get all selections: # update-alternatives --get-selections # To get a particular selection: # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser # http://askubuntu.com/questions/100693/how-can-i-manually-change-the-default-web-browser # http://askubuntu.com/questions/45885/how-do-i-set-a-custom-browser-as-default-in-preferred-applications?rq=1 # http://fvue.nl/wiki/Linux:_Default_browser # cat /proc/$(pidof krunner)/environ | tr '\000' '\012' | grep BROWSER if [[ $(whoami) != 'root' ]] then echo "Must be run as root" exit 1 fi BROWSER=/home/jhammel/firefox/firefox PREFIX=/usr/bin for LINK in gnome-www-browser x-www-browser do LINKPATH=${PREFIX}/${LINK} update-alternatives --install ${LINKPATH} ${LINK} ${BROWSER} 99 update-alternatives --install ${LINKPATH} ${LINK} ${BROWSER} 99 update-alternatives --set ${LINK} ${BROWSER} update-alternatives --display ${LINK} # unlink ${LINKPATH} # ln -s ${BROWSER} ${LINKPATH} done