[Alpine-info] alpineand browsers?

[Karl Lindauer via Alpine-info]

Actually, silly question may you can help me with, loosely related to this 
thread.

I use Linux Mint and Alpine, works fine for years.   I recently upgraded 
to the newest version of Linux Mint and now Alpine has no idea how to open 
any applications on my computer for things like PDF files, image files, 
etc.    But, the defaults are all set fine on my computer, if I double 
click a PDF or image, it opens the correct viewer.   Just Alpine seems to 
have no idea how to open these files.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks
Karl


On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Rob Wolfconf via Alpine-info wrote:


> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 1:43 AM Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info

> <alpine-info at u.washington.edu> wrote:

>> Perhaps a feature request.

>> Granted I am unsure how Alpine decides what browser is used, as in when

>> one follows a link in an email.

>> Still, I am wondering if the ability to say have more than one option might

>> be helpful?

>> Especially  for Linux users where sites may react oddly to anything that

>> does not look like  a windows tool?

>> Just a thought,

>> Karen

>

> Hello Karen,

>

> Chime answered you how to set the browser in alpine using url-viewers.

> Normal user would probably use gnome-www-browser, www-browser or

> x-www-browser, which can be symlinks to specific browsers or to

> xdg-open, which decides itself what application to start, for URL it

> choose some web browser.

>

> As it says "viewers" there can be multiple "browsers" (in fact, it can

> be any program of your choice). Please, use help to see exact syntax.

> You can defined different browsers according to different test

> conditions.

>

> After clicking on the link, alpine choose the first "browser"

> according to conditions. Then you still can edit URL and/or

> application (browser) before starting it. You can create some browser

> wrappers with short names (e.g. ff or chr) which would start firefox

> or google-chrome, so you don't need to write the whole command in

> alpine.

>

> If you are advanced user, you can write your own wrapper script,

> either using e.g. zenity or simple read to select the browser, or let

> script to choose the browser according to URL domain.

>

> Personaly I have script which stores the URL to the clipboard and then

> I can decide, where I want to paste it - in the browser and which

> browser or messaging system or somewhere else.

>

> Alpine is not as simple as thunderbird or outlook are. It requires a

> little bit more knowledge from user but it offers more flexibility

> than thunderbird or outlook. TB/Outlook just start browser on URL

> click. Alpine does the same by default, but you can configure it to

> work according to your needs, but you have to do it yourself.

>

> I believe your "feature request" is already implemented :-)

>

> Regards,

> Robert.

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