Do we still need the BROWSER var?

[philmmanjaro]

Sent by email: 27.04.2016 at 23:20 - from Dax Gahr:
I've recently been having issues with too many resources being used up for
apparently no reason. I figured out that xdg-open is spawning a ton of
processes of itself.

It looks like in /etc/profile, BROWSER is set to "xdg-open", which is
what's causing the recursive call issue. I tested this by typing "xdg-open
http://www.google.com/", and sure enough, a ton of "xdg-open" processes
started appearing. I can fix this myself by setting BROWSER to something
else, but I was wondering if this was set in /etc/profile intentionally??

[oberon-manjaro]

At the moment we also export it from /etc/environment ...
People using WMs will certainly be happy if that can be dropped ;)

[noobpurple]

I also found it in my ~/.bashrc, by the way. Commenting them out fixed the issue.

[oberon-manjaro]

@noobpurple , which edition do you use? I assume that in your .bashrc the variable was not set to xdg-open but to a specific browser?

[noobpurple]

I use manjaro-net-15.12 with i3 installed. And, no, it was originally set to xdg-open in my .bashrc.

[oberon-manjaro]

OK. Especially for WMs that is certainly not a good idea 😜

[philmmanjaro]

So we drop it then.

[philmmanjaro]

@Oberon2007: well we have it also in thus and in calamares. Cli-Installer might be also the case ...

[philmmanjaro]

Yep, cli has it also.

[oberon-manjaro]