I'm on Linux Mint Olivia. I just installed Lynx.
How do I set Lynx as my browser, so when I open links from the terminal, they open in that terminal with Lynx?
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Sign up to join this communityI'm on Linux Mint Olivia. I just installed Lynx.
How do I set Lynx as my browser, so when I open links from the terminal, they open in that terminal with Lynx?
First make .desktop
application for lynx
:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Lynx
Exec=gnome-terminal -e 'lynx %u'
And save it to application directory e.g /usr/share/applications/
naming like lynx.desktop
and give it execution permission (chmod+ x
).
Then set it as default web browser by using:
xdg-settings set default-web-browser lynx.desktop
Now try to Open link
and it will be open with lynx
in the terminal.
Note: lynx
is command-line web-browser and hence it needs terminal so-that I've used gnome-terminal
in my example Exec
command. Your terminal application may be different. This works for me with my current system.
x-terminal-emulator
is the way to go, rather than hard-code specific terminal names.
Jan 23, 2016 at 13:34
Since I'm not using GNOME, I used the following for the .desktop
file:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Lynx
Exec=lynx %u
Terminal=true
Categories=Network;
Icon=/usr/share/applications/lynx.jpg
Changes include:
lynx http://www.mypage.com
.xdg-settings set default-web-browser lynx
sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser "$(which linx)"
.desktop
application toxdg-settings