[Alpine-info] alpineand browsers?

[Karl Lindauer via Alpine-info]

Thanks Josh!   That actually did the trick.   I got a message that the 
mime-support was replaced by a different name, but as soon as I installed 
it, VIOLA!  Problem solved.  Thanks!



On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Joshua Miller wrote:


> If you don't get a good answer to this, you may want to ask on a Mint support site/list since that seems to be a change between Mint releases. That said,

> I'd start by trying:

> sudo apt install mime-support shared-mime-info

> 

> I'm not sure if those are the culprit, but that seems likely to me since a lot of the handlers end up using mime types to determine the handler.

> 

> HTH,

> --

> Josh I.

> 

> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:58 AM Karl Lindauer via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.washington.edu> wrote:

>

>       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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