[GRASS-user] GRASS_HTML_BROWSER

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Hi

If I click: Help -> GRASS help on the tcl/tk gui, GRASS tries to launch
konqueror when what I want is firefox. g.manual -i on the commandline gives
me firefox. I have set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER in two places (see below), but I
guess I still need to set the variable some place else?

GRASS 6.3.0RC3 (msunduzi_lo31):~ > more .grass.bashrc
export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=firefox
GRASS 6.3.0RC3 (msunduzi_lo31):~ > g.gisenv
GISDBASE=/home/craig/GIS/grassdata
MAPSET=sewer
LOCATION_NAME=msunduzi_lo31
GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=firefox
GRASS_GUI=tcltk
GRASS 6.3.0RC3 (msunduzi_lo31):~ >

Any ideas on what I'm missing?

Thanks

Craig.
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Craig Leat wrote:

If I click: Help -> GRASS help on the tcl/tk gui, GRASS tries to launch
konqueror when what I want is firefox. g.manual -i on the commandline gives
me firefox. I have set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER in two places (see below), but I
guess I still need to set the variable some place else?

GRASS 6.3.0RC3 (msunduzi_lo31):~ > more .grass.bashrc
export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=firefox
GRASS 6.3.0RC3 (msunduzi_lo31):~ > g.gisenv
GISDBASE=/home/craig/GIS/grassdata
MAPSET=sewer
LOCATION_NAME=msunduzi_lo31
GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=firefox
GRASS_GUI=tcltk
GRASS 6.3.0RC3 (msunduzi_lo31):~ >

Any ideas on what I'm missing?

GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is an environment variable rather than a GRASS
variable, so setting it via g.gisenv won't help.

Also setting it in ~/.grass.bashrc will only affect the GRASS shell
and programs launched from it. If you have gis.m launched at startup,
it won't be affected.

You can set it in ~/.bash_profile (etc) to have it apply everywhere,
but that won't affect any shells which are already running. For an
existing shell, type "export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=firefox" before
starting GRASS.

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