[Alpine-info] How to unlynx links in Alpine?

[Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info]

As noted I have /usr/bin/firefox in my Alpine config, that was 
the first thing I checked.

Nothing relevant in .mailcap.

But /etc/mailcap says this:

    ----

### Begin Red Hat Mailcap
###

audio/*; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s

image/*; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s

application/msword; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/pdf; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s
application/postscript ; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s

text/html; /usr/bin/xdg-open %s ; copiousoutput

    ----

Not familiar with xdg-open, but I found this:

    ****

How do I make Firefox my default browser in XDG?

NOTE: you will need to change /PATH_TO_FIREFOX_BIN/ to the path 
to your firefox binary.

    change xdg to use firefox:
xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

    check xdg setting: xdg-settings get default-web-browser.

    ****

I gave the first command, it was accepted, but the change has no 
effect on links in Alpine.

The second command gives the following response:

thomas at morgoth:/etc$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
/usr/bin/which: no firefox-bin in 
(/uio/kant/ifi-snacks/snacks-amd64linuxrh7/encap/firefox-68.0.1+1/opt/firefox)
/usr/bin/which: no firefox in 
(/ifi/asgard/snacks-amd64linuxrh6/encap/firefox-42.0+1/opt/firefox)

I don't know why /usr/bin/which was called there, but I'm pretty 
sure those two file paths are wrong. What now?

Thomas Gramstad


On Sun, 5 Jan 2025, Mats Dufberg via Alpine-info wrote:


> I just want to note that there could be other files read by the mailcap 

> function, such as /etc/mailcap. See "man mailcap".

> 

> I have no .mailcap and no url-viewers setting in .pinerc, but alpine will 

> open http/https URLs with Chrome for me. /etc/mailcap is non-empty on my 

> system.

> 

> 

> Yours,

> Mats

> 

> On 2025-01-05, 13:25 (+0100) Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.was...:

> 

> > Hi Thomas,

> > 

> > You do not share too many informations, so it is difficult to point

> > out a possible reason for your problem. But anyways, I can tell you

> > what works for me. I use alpine and Firefox just like you seemingly

> > want it to work.  The system is a Linux (Debian stable) with alpine

> > 2.26.

> > 

> > A search in my .pinerc shows the following lines containing "url":

> > 

> > (Search command: $ grep -i url .pinerc)

> > Result:

> > ==========

> > 	enable-msg-view-urls,

> > # List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp references).

> > url-viewers=/usr/bin/firefox

> > ==========

> > 

> > I do not know if the .mailcap could interfere with the alpine

> > configuration in regard of the URL viewer, but (for what it's worth) I

> > checked for this. My .mailcap does not contain anything related URLs

> > or http or https.

> > 

> > Nevertheless, there are entries containing lynx in /etc/mailcap and

> > lynx is installed.

> > 

> > Maybe this helps you finding the problem?

> > 

> > Olaf

> > 

> > 

> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 02:41, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote:

> > 

> > > In my Alpine config I have URL-viewer set to /usr/bin/firefox

> > > in order to be able to click a link in an e-mail message and

> > > have it opened in Firefox in an external window.

> > > 

> > > This used to work, but now it doesn't.

> > > 

> > > What happens now is that I'm asked to accept a cookie, I answer

> > > Y, and then this repeats a few times. Then finally I get the

> > > message that the app will not work unless I install Javascript,

> > > and then nothing more happens.

> > > 

> > > I have tried a few times, and also used the ? option while

> > > accepting cookies. According to the ? option, the app asking

> > > for repeated cookie acceptance is Lynx. And yes, it does look

> > > like a vague memory I have a few decades back of the Lynx web

> > > browser.

> > > 

> > > So how can I make Firefox work as before, without being asked

> > > about cookies, and without Javascript, and without Lynx?

> > > Is there a way to unlynx Alpine?

> > > 

> > > Thomas Gramstad

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