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From: Robert Campbell (rlc1_at_post.queensu.ca)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 09:51:53 CST

Hi Felix,

* Fernandez-Alonso, F (Felix) <F.Fernandez-Alonso_at_rl.ac.uk> [2003-10-31 13:42] wrote:
>
> I am a new user of VMD, so please bear with me. I have just installed a
> precompiled version VMD 1.8.1 on my Linux box (Red Hat 9). The program seems
> to be running okay except that it appears to have problems accessing the
> help menu. The error message in the console bar is as follows:
>
> vmd_open_url failed: couldn't execute "netscape"; no such file or directory.
>
> Obviously, vmd thinks that I am using netscape as my web browser. How could
> I change this setting?

You just need to set the environment variable VMDHTMLVIEWER to whatever
you wish. I have

  export VMDHTMLVIEWER='galeon -w %s'

in my .zshrc file.

Cheers,
Rob 

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