Re: How is Help browser started?

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Mar 22 2012 - 21:32:07 CET

Hi Larry,

In the first instance abiword checks the content of the "BROWSER"
environment variable to search for prefered installed web browser. If
this is not set it then itterates through a list optential browsers
and looks for each on the users system. The first one it finds it uses
to open the help page. The list is:

                        "sensible-browser", /* debian */
                        "epiphany", /* primary gnome */
                        "galeon", /* secondary gnome */
                        "encompass",
                        "firefox",
                        "mozilla-firebird",
                        "mozilla",
                        "netscape",
                        "konqueror",
                        "xterm -e w3m",
                        "xterm -e lynx",
                        "xterm -e links"

If it fails to find any of these give up and you get the error you see.

Cheers
Martin

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Larry Short <info@diddywahdiddy.net> wrote:
>
> The items in the Help Menu start "your default browser" to display the help.
>  How is that accomplished?  I ask because it does not work for me.  If I
> start Abiword in a terminal I get the message 'Warning: Operation Not
> Supported' when I click the Help menu -> Help Contents.  This is in Puppy
> Linux which is not standard in many ways--to get the Help working in one
> program, I needed a file named 'sensible-browser' to start the default
> browser.  Thanks for any help.  (Sorry if this is a duplicate--I sent one
> before I was authorized I think.)
>
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