When I open the help files blender opens........?

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When I open the blender help at the top menu, blender opens up the wrong internet browser and locks up. Is there a way I can tell blender to open up a different browser? I looked through the menus and could not find anything. Thanks.

2

blender uses the webbrowser python module to start your web browser

http://python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/module-webbrowser.html

it ought to use your default browser

here is the code from one of the scripts [I probably ought to include the license, but this is only 4 lines]

import Blender, webbrowser
version = str(Blender.Get('version'))
webbrowser.open('http://www.blender3d.org/Help/?pg=GettingStarted&ver=' + version)
3

It tries to open up galeon but crashes and I dont use that. I use opera and mozilla or firefox. I have never had galeon set as my default browser, kinda weird?
Anyway, what do I have to do to get blender to use Opera? I dont know anything about python. :expressionless: I found the script but it is missing the middle line version = str(Blender.Get(‘version’))

4

What part of the script do I edit to enable blender to use a different browser?
Thanks.

5

if you can find webbrowser.py in your python lib folder you can edit the following line there [I guess]


    # X browsers have more in the way of options
    if os.environ.get("DISPLAY"):
        _tryorder = ["galeon", "skipstone", "mozilla", "netscape",
                     "kfm", "grail"] + _tryorder

… in my python version it is line 278

changing this would have a better effect than editing each individual script with each blender release

I could’ve sworn linux had some kind of default browser it would try… I guess not

6

Thanks, That did it. I substituted galeon with opera. Thanks again. :slight_smile: