After switching my computers to Arch Linux, reusing the existing home directories, I had the problem that the bash did not replace the user’s home directory with the tilde character (~) in the prompt. The solutions for this problem is easy: somewhere in the bash-internals a check tests whether the output of pwd matches the … Read More →
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Ubuntu Default Browser in Thunderbird
Since the update to Ubuntu/Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat I was a bit puzzled why Thunderbird refused to open links in mails with my default browser Firefox even though it was set in the KDE settings and registered as a protocol-handler for http and https in the Thunderbird settings. It seems that there must be another setting … Read More →