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Hello, I'm trying to get a program that I installed to have an assigned command to run it.....in other words I can open it through a terminal with "/root/.firefox/firefox" but since I didnt install it from a package it doesnt just run from the command "firefox". There is an executable file in there, and i tried copying it to /usr/bin but it didnt make a difference. I'd appreciate if anybody can help me if they know what im talking about.
The reason why is so I can put it into Gaim as my default browser to open links, it needs a command like: "firefox -e %s" (%s insterts the link adress) but that wont work, and neither will "/root/.firefox/firefox %s" which is the command i use to run it in terminal.
Darn, okay so that worked.....now there's another problem. Now Gaim won't use my command "firefox %s" as command for Gaim to open links in Firefox......i opened up the debug window so I could see the command it used for Opera, which was "opera -newpage %s" and then I checked in terminal and in the KDE application launcher if the command "firefox http://www.somewebpage.com" would open that page up in firefox, and it did. So I dont think that im missing any arguments for that command. Why wont Gaim use that command to open links? Ironically, this is why I wanted to assign a command to firefox in the first place. Thanks to anybody who can help.
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