Hi all,
when I try to open the HamQTH or qrz.com website of a station, cqrlog opens this error message:
Executable not found: "chromium-browser".
Press OK to ignore and risk data corruption.
Press Abort to kill the program.
Nowhere in the preferences is a setting, which says "chromium-browser". On the "External viewers" tab, it makes no difference, if the "HTML files" entry is set to firefox, google-chrome or any other installed browser, even with full path, e.g. /usr/bin/google-chrome.
Any ideas what's wrong?
73
Ulf DK5TX
I assume you are not running latest cqrlog compiled from source.
Then your linux system tries to find browser using xdg-open script. It is a script that tires to find a registered application for various types of files.
With console try command:
xdg-open https://qrz.com
Do you get same kind of error then? You have to register programs to use for different purposes. This is usually found from from starup menu / system defaults or some kind of similar selection depending on your Linux.
With latest cqrlog (compiled from source) you can set default web browser at preferences/Program. Doing that is needed if you like to get help files working in proper way as xdg-open script has known problem that it strips away hashtag links from url path that causes help files open always at top of page, not from the chapter that hashtag link of help subject shows.
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Saku
OH1KH
Hi Saku,
I'm using Xubuntu here with the XFCE Desktop. The preferred application for "Web Browser" in the configuration is set to Chrome. The "xdg-open https://qrz.com" command opens the website in Chrome, so that seems not to be the issue. It seems to be "hardcoded" somewhere within CQRLOG. I'm using 2.4.0 (001).
The only way to solve the problem at the moment is to install the chromium-browser. Then, CQRLOG is able to open the HamQTH / qrz.com websites, because finally the chromium-browser is found by CQRLOG. An even easier solution, without installing the chromium-browser, is to create a link in /usr/bin named chromium-browser, which links to google-chrome. This works now. But I will check the next repository release, if the settings at preferences/Program change the described behaviour.
Tnx & 73
Ulf DK5TX