- I run boincmgr under linux (RH ES 4.0)
- Click Projects tab
- Click SETI@home project
- A list of web site buttons appears on the left
- I click a web site button
- nothing happens

How do I get boincmgr to start a web browswer and point it at the appropriate URL? Where is the web browser configuration?

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I have this same problem, and asked about it in the main forums a while back. Rom Walton gave me this reply:

The manager is supposed to lookup the browser defined in the Unix mime database.

I was under the imression that all Unix style systems have them these days. Although, if you are not seeing a browser launch then it must not be setup.

Here is how the wxWidgets library defines it:

Unix: MIME type information is stored in the files mailcap and mime.types (system-wide) and .mailcap and .mime.types in the current user's home directory: all of these files are searched for and loaded if found by default. However, additional functions wxMimeTypesManager::ReadMailcap and wxMimeTypesManager::ReadMimeTypes are provided to load additional files.

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----- Rom

BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley

I'm running seti on a Debian 3.1 machine (Sarge) with KDE and all the 'as installed' mime, mime.type, mailcap settings. I haven't taken the time to try tweaking the various mime-related files to see if I can make it go. If you're running the KDE desktop, a very good alternative is kboincspy. It provides the same functionality of boincmgr and blends into the KDE environment very nicely with it's windowed and graphical displays.

I have this same problem, and asked about it in the main forums a while back. Rom Walton gave me this reply:
[quote]The manager is supposed to lookup the browser defined in the Unix mime database.

I was under the imression that all Unix style systems have them these days. Although, if you are not seeing a browser launch then it must not be setup.

Here is how the wxWidgets library defines it:

Unix: MIME type information is stored in the files mailcap and mime.types (system-wide) and .mailcap and .mime.types in the current user's home directory: all of these files are searched for and loaded if found by default. However, additional functions wxMimeTypesManager::ReadMailcap and wxMimeTypesManager::ReadMimeTypes are provided to load additional files.

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----- Rom

BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley

OK, looks like everything is setup and it still doesn't work:

[linest@amd64 ~]$ grep html /etc/mailcap
text/html; /usr/bin/htmlview %s ; copiousoutput
[linest@amd64 ~]$ grep html /etc/mime.types
application/vnd.pwg-xhtml-print+xml
application/xhtml+xml xhtml xht
text/html html htm
[linest@amd64 ~]$ file /usr/bin/htmlview
/usr/bin/htmlview: Bourne-Again shell script text executable

htmlview is a script that calls firefox. If I liked opera better, I'd edit this script for a system wide change.

Maybe the mime type boincmgr is looking for is not text/html? Looks like it is:
[linest@amd64 BOINC]$ strings boincmgr | grep -i html
text/html
HTML
html
HTML document (from fallback)
text/html

But what I DON'T see there are any URLs ending in htm or html.

Guess, I've got a lot of digging to do.

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