Configure web browser?

[danielhatton]

How do I configure which web browser toot tui launches, e.g. on pressing "v" to view a toot or following a link, please?

[ihabunek]

It currently uses the default system browser, using python's webbrowser.open function.

You can override it by setting the BROWSER environment variable to the executable of the browser you want to run.

e.g. for linux you could use one of these:

export BROWSER=firefox
export BROWSER=~/.local/bin/firefox
export BROWSER=chromium-browser

[danielhatton]

On 21/11/2024 11:09, Ivan Habunek wrote: You can override it by setting the |BROWSER| environment variable to the executable of the browser you want to run. e.g. for linux you could use one of these: |export BROWSER=firefox export BROWSER=~/.local/bin/firefox > export BROWSER=chromium-browser |

Hmm. I just tried (export BROWSER="/home/dan/.guix-profile/bin/icecat -P \"toot\""; toot tui) and it's still using Gnome Web (which isn't even set as Gnome's default browser app).

[danielhatton]

On 21/11/2024 12:03, Daniel Hatton wrote: Hmm.  I just tried (export BROWSER="/home/dan/.guix-profile/bin/icecat -P \"toot\""; toot tui) and it's still using Gnome Web (which isn't even set as Gnome's default browser app).

However, after reading the docs for the Python webbrowser module, I tried (export BROWSER="/home/dan/.guix-profile/bin/icecat -P \"toot\" %s"; toot tui) which seems to work. (Except now I need to suss out the magic redirection formula to send all the guff IceCat wants to print to STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null)

[ihabunek]

Cool. When you figure it out can you tell me and I'll put it into the documentation.

[danielhatton]

On 21/11/2024 15:24, Ivan Habunek wrote: Cool. When you figure it out can you tell me and I'll put it into the documentation.

Hah! You'd think it'd be easy, but if I just put >/dev/null 2>&1 at the end, IceCat snaffles up ">/dev/null" and "2>&1" and parses them as two more URLs to open in tabs, never letting the shell see them.

[danschwarz]

Write a tiny shell script that launches icecat with redirection as you like it, and set the BROWSER variable to point at your script.

[danielhatton]

On 22/11/2024 03:24, Daniel Schwarz wrote: Write a tiny shell script that launches icecat with redirection as you like it, and set the BROWSER variable to point at your script.

Yes: working as desired with (export BROWSER="/home/dan/bin/launchIcecatFromToot %s >/dev/null 2>&1 &"; toot tui) where /home/dan/bin/launchIcecatFromToot is the perl script #!/usr/bin/perl use strict ; use warnings ; my $argNumber = 0 ; my $command ='/home/dan/.guix-profile/bin/icecat -P "toot"' ; while ($ARGV[$argNumber]) { $command = $command . " " . $ARGV[$argNumber] ; $argNumber++ ; } system($command) ; But that's probably a bit much for Ivan to put in the toot documentation.