{"thread":{"id":"13255","subject":"[PATCH 5/5] documentation: web--browse: add a note about konqueror","startedAt":"2008-04-25T06:25:41Z","lastAt":"2008-04-25T06:25:41Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Christian Couder"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":5},"messages":[{"id":"75171","messageId":"20080425082541.968266fd.chriscool@tuxfamily.org","threadId":"13255","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH 5/5] documentation: web--browse: add a note about konqueror","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"chriscool@tuxfamily.org","sentAt":"2008-04-25T06:25:41Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-25T06:25:41Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"This note explains how to work around the fact that we try to use\nkfmclient to launch konqueror.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>\n---\n Documentation/git-web--browse.txt |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-\n 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt\nindex ddbae5b..92ef574 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt\n@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:\n \n * firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)\n * iceweasel\n-* konqueror (this is the default under KDE)\n+* konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see 'Note about konqueror' below)\n * w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)\n * links\n * lynx\n@@ -71,6 +71,28 @@ variable exists then \"git web--browse\" will treat the specified tool\n as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with\n the URLs passed as arguments.\n \n+Note about konqueror\n+--------------------\n+\n+When 'konqueror' is specified by the a command line option or a\n+configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the HTML\n+man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.\n+\n+For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'brower.konqueror.path' is\n+set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to\n+launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.\n+\n+If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like\n+the following:\n+\n+------------------------------------------------\n+\t[web]\n+\t\tbrowser = konq\n+\n+\t[browser \"konq\"]\n+\t\tcmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror\n+------------------------------------------------\n+\n Note about git config --global\n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n \n-- \n1.5.5.130.g3ab1e.dirty\n"}]}