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drevicko
Asked: 2015-12-09 05:49:02 +0800 CST

How to exit default www-browser?

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I inadvertently landed in the www-browser application. This is a text based web browser.

How do I exit it?

browser

2 Answers

  1. Closing the terminal window it runs in (just like closing any other window) should terminate the application, unless it was started with a command line option to ignore HUP signals or continue independent of the parent process.

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  2. Best Answer

    www-browser is managed by Debian alternatives system, it it a generic name for a CLI browser to point to.

    You can check which browser it currently points to by:

    update-alternatives --display www-browser

    In my system:

    y% update-alternatives --display www-browser
www-browser - auto mode
  link currently points to /usr/bin/lynx
/usr/bin/lynx - priority 40
  slave www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/lynx.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/usr/bin/lynx'.

    As you can see it currently points to lynx.

    Now i can exit lynx hitting Ctrl + C.

    EDIT:

    As you are using w3m you can press q and then y to exit.

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