Comments on: 24.11.2006 How to start a web browser http://blogs.gnome.org/timj/2006/11/24/24112006-how-to-start-a-web-browser/ timj.testbit.eu/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin Krammer http://blogs.gnome.org/timj/2006/11/24/24112006-how-to-start-a-web-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Kevin Krammer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/timj/2006/11/24/24112006-how-to-start-a-web-browser/#comment-39 This is weird.<p/>Since xdg-open does, if one of the three desktop environments is detected, only call the above mentioned launchers, it is hard to explain why it would show such a different behavior.<p/>Did you test xdg-open within a desktop session or just running a simple window manager (in which case the default would be using $BROWSER and behavior would depend on the browsers listed there) This is weird.

Since xdg-open does, if one of the three desktop environments is detected, only call the above mentioned launchers, it is hard to explain why it would show such a different behavior.

Did you test xdg-open within a desktop session or just running a simple window manager (in which case the default would be using $BROWSER and behavior would depend on the browsers listed there)

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