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  • Clicking Alpine urls in WSL Ubuntu?

    From Chime Hart@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 1 10:07:27 2024
    Hi All: I asked this in an Alpine-info list. Maybe more folks read over here? I figured Alpine would be a simplest mail client for my Wife, who's also totally blind. An issue we cannot seem to solve is setting up a windows11 browser for her to click links contained in messages. Obviously, since I am in Linux, this works well, but going to outlook, with a path such as
    /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe
    We tried quoting, escaping, changing backslashes to slashes, so-far it won't work. I am even wondering if linking to an actual Linux browser such as Chrome would be a better option? Thanks so much in advance for any guidance
    Chime

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Chime Hart on Fri Mar 1 22:38:11 2024
    On Fri, 1 Mar 2024, Chime Hart wrote:

    Hi All: I asked this in an Alpine-info list. Maybe more folks read over here? I figured Alpine would be a simplest mail client for my Wife, who's also totally blind. An issue we cannot seem to solve is setting up a windows11 browser for her to click links contained in messages. Obviously, since I am in Linux, this works well, but going to outlook, with a path such as /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe
    We tried quoting, escaping, changing backslashes to slashes, so-far it won't work. I am even wondering if linking to an actual Linux browser such as Chrome would be a better option? Thanks so much in advance for any guidance Chime


    Hello Chime,

    I only use linux so I'm afraid I cannot help with windows things.
    However... in terms of your wife, I assume windows is a must due to some special software or service.

    But what about running alpine in a VM on windows? Alternatively, running
    linux natively, and running windows (in case of any special software) in a
    VM on linux?

    I think you can integrate VM windows fairly well on the linux desktop.

    Just a suggestion.

    Best regards,
    Daniel

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  • From J.O. Aho@21:1/5 to Chime Hart on Sat Mar 2 00:21:28 2024
    On 01/03/2024 19.07, Chime Hart wrote:
    Hi All: I asked this in an Alpine-info list. Maybe more folks read over
    here? I figured Alpine would be a simplest mail client for my Wife,
    who's also totally blind. An issue we cannot seem to solve is setting up
    a windows11 browser for her to click links contained in messages.
    Obviously, since I am in Linux, this works well, but going to outlook,
    with a path such as
    /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe
    We tried quoting, escaping, changing backslashes to slashes, so-far it
    won't work. I am even wondering if linking to an actual Linux browser
    such as Chrome would be a better option? Thanks so much in advance for
    any guidance
    Chime

    Nowadays WSL do support GUI application out of the box, so installing a
    Linux native browser would work fine, if using the same as the one your
    wife uses for windows and then sync them against same cloud account,
    then all the bookmarks and passwords would be accessible no matter if
    it's WSL or ms-windows.
    I do recommend to use a PPA to install the browser as it seems to be a
    script that don't work that well under WSL that Canonica uses in Ubutu
    to install browsers.

    Alternatively modify your PATH to include /mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/ (no escaping) and then try to tell to
    just execute msedge.exe, not sure how well this will work in alpine, but
    could be worth a test.

    --
    //Aho

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Chime Hart on Sat Mar 2 10:43:06 2024
    On Fri, 1 Mar 2024, Chime Hart wrote:

    Hi All: I asked this in an Alpine-info list. Maybe more folks read over
    here? I figured Alpine would be a simplest mail client for my Wife,
    who's also totally blind. An issue we cannot seem to solve is setting up
    a windows11 browser for her to click links contained in messages.
    Obviously, since I am in Linux, this works well, but going to outlook,
    with a path such as /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe We tried quoting,
    escaping, changing backslashes to slashes, so-far it won't work. I am
    even wondering if linking to an actual Linux browser such as Chrome
    would be a better option?

    Chime,

    Try the following. Create a script, say browser.sh, in the home directory
    whose content is

    #!/bin/sh
    /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe "$1"

    make sure it is executable (chmod 700 browser.sh) and set up in the
    .pinerc

    url-viewers="/full/path/to/browser.sh _URL_"

    I hope this helps.

    --
    Eduardo
    https://alpineapp.email (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From Holger Schieferdecker@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 4 10:10:13 2024
    Am 01.03.2024 um 19:07 schrieb Chime Hart:
    Hi All: I asked this in an Alpine-info list. Maybe more folks read over
    here? I figured Alpine would be a simplest mail client for my Wife,
    who's also totally blind. An issue we cannot seem to solve is setting up
    a windows11 browser for her to click links contained in messages.
    Obviously, since I am in Linux, this works well, but going to outlook,
    with a path such as
    /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe
    We tried quoting, escaping, changing backslashes to slashes, so-far it
    won't work. I am even wondering if linking to an actual Linux browser
    such as Chrome would be a better option? Thanks so much in advance for
    any guidance
    Chime

    I understand that currently your system is Windows 11 and you use Alpine
    in WSL. So instead of using the Linux version of Alpine you could
    install PC-Alpine. I use it for years and am totally happy with it.
    Clicking on a link opens the windows default browser.

    Holger

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