Edit: while waiting for your replies, my PAM lockout/timeout reset and I was able to try. It worked. 🤣
I am trying to open the cloud provider Internxt’s desktop app. I have Librewolf installed, which I’m sure is going to work as a substitute for Firefox. Can I
ln -s /usr/bin/librewolf /usr/bin/firefox
to make their app use Librewolf instead, thinking it’s actually executing Firefox? If not, would an alias work?
Eh, i just symlink the executable to
~/.local/bin/xdg-weband set that in the Webbrowser shortcut. There’s a bunch of xdg- links now and i know with als -lwhat’s what.Oh, well… xD Maybe next time then. I guess the only difference in my case is that
xdgstill looks through all possible executables until encounteres Firefox? While your solution doesn’t have to run through them all, but immediately jumps to the browser of your choice?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/18418/how-can-i-set-which-application-is-launched-by-xdg-open
You might want to configure xdg to open what you want instead.
Thanks! I’ll bookmark this since I should learn xdg someday, but not today. 🤣 For now, this
lnfakery worked. 😅You can use the
update-alternativescommand with thex-www-browserkey to create the symlink and let the system manage it.It seems to me that having the symbolic link in
/usr/binwould cause an error if you tried to install Firefox. It might be better to place the symlink in/usr/local/bin.Thanks! I don’t see myself ever installing Firefox, but I’ll definitely read up of the differences between local/bin and “normal” bin. :)
While waiting for your replies, my PAM lockout/timeout reset and I was able to try. It worked. 🤣
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