x-www-browser bash command doesnt work in puppy

[schober]

Using this command in the console you can display a url in the current browser (firefox or google)

This works fine on ubuntu - the syntax i use in a bash script is
x-www-browser $url

On puppy however I get "# bash: x-www-browser: command not found"
I'm using Wary 5.3

Any suggestions?

[rockedge]

install Lynx (the text browser) then make a symlink in /usr/bin to it and name it www-browser

you can install Lynx with the Puppy Package Manager ...........that might do it.

[schober]

Lynx doesn't display images, so isnt suitable
I'm using Palemoon

xdg-open will display a jpg file in a url but that is about all it does (and it goes into Seamonkey)
It wont display images like this https://tinyurl.com/yc9uwg6u

[musher0]

Hello schober.

This is the line that I have in my /root/.Xdefaults file:

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urxvt.url-launcher: defaultbrowser

It launches the full browser I have defined in /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser when I
click, in console, on a URL.

Had I wanted a less cumbersome and quicker browser such as lynks or links2,
I could have specified

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urxvt.url-launcher: defaulthtmlviewer

This is my file /usr/local/bin/defaulthtmlviewer:

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#!/bin/sh
# defaulthtmlviewer
####
exec links2 -g "$@" 2>/dev/null
# xlinks2, in some packages or compilations

IHTH

[schober]

Adding "urxvt.url-launcher: defaultbrowser" didn't change anything

This command "xdg-open http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php" works but fails with the url https://tinyurl.com/yc9uwg6u points to

Wheras " x-www-browser http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php" doesn't work (bash: x-www-browser: command not found)

This command is in ubuntu but not available in the standard version of wary as far as I cansee

[bigpup]

Try:

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defaultbrowser $url

[dancytron]

install Lynx (the text browser) then make a symlink in /usr/bin to it and name it www-browser

you can install Lynx with the Puppy Package Manager ...........that might do it.

Have you tried just creating a symlink in /usr/bin to whatever browser you want it to trigger and renaming it x-www-browser (or www-browser, try both).

Also, in Debian, both of those links are in /etc/alternatives and then the x-www-browser is linked to /usr/bin from there. You might look there and see if there is anything.

If you don't figure it out, I'll fire up a more recent puppy and see how it is set up there.

[sheldonisaac]

Try:

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defaultbrowser $url

That worked just now with his tinyurl.
Musher0's Xenial, Iron browser.

[ally]

works also xenial64 7.5 & chrome

[musher0]

Hi schober.

Replies interspersed.

Adding "urxvt.url-launcher: defaultbrowser" didn't change anything

My bad. Please forgive me. I forgot to mention that every time you edit
.Xresources or .Xdefaults, you need to open a terminal and type

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xrdb ~/.Xresources

or

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xrdb ~/.Xdefaults

(as the case may be).
Otherwise, you have to recycle X to get your edits to these files recognized.

This command "xdg-open http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php" works but fails with the url https://tinyurl.com/yc9uwg6u points to.

Not Puppy's fault! If you remember the full URL, use that?

Wheras " x-www-browser http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php" doesn't work (bash: x-www-browser: command not found)

No. That command does not exist on Puppy, don't look for it. As I said above,
we have two equivalents: the commands < defaultbrowser > (for a full-blown
browser) or < defaulthtmlviewer > (for smaller browsers, such as dillo, links2,
netsurf, etc.). In Puppy, forget < x-www-browser >; use < defaultbrowser > or
< defaulthtmlviewer >.

This command is in ubuntu but not available in the standard version of wary as far as I can see

The Ubuntu-derived "breeds" of Puppy such as tahrPup, precisePup and xenialPup
do feed on the Ubuntu repos for apps. However, PuppyLinux has invented
a lot of its own solutions. Surprising as that may sound, PuppyLinux is NOT a
carbon copy of any other distro,

IHTH.

[schober]

Well well, the line defaultbrowser https://tinyurl.com/yc9uwg6u worked!
Many thanks to all who took an interest
Changing the default browser from Sea monkey to Palemoon is a big improvement - image loads faster
schober