From: Christian Couder Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:25:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: documentation: web--browse: add a note about konqueror X-Git-Tag: v1.5.6-rc0~82^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ac3a4a2694fa8bea477b1a265efd6829de686e5c;p=git.git documentation: web--browse: add a note about konqueror This note explains how to work around the fact that we try to use kfmclient to launch konqueror. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index ddbae5b19..92ef57456 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported: * firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE) * iceweasel -* konqueror (this is the default under KDE) +* konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see 'Note about konqueror' below) * w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments) * links * lynx @@ -71,6 +71,28 @@ variable exists then "git web--browse" will treat the specified tool as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with the URLs passed as arguments. +Note about konqueror +-------------------- + +When 'konqueror' is specified by the a command line option or a +configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the HTML +man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible. + +For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'brower.konqueror.path' is +set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to +launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead. + +If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like +the following: + +------------------------------------------------ + [web] + browser = konq + + [browser "konq"] + cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror +------------------------------------------------ + Note about git config --global ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~