How to run Light Browser as an extra sfs file

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How to run Light Browser as an extra sfs file

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The Light Browser is included in a few releases as an adrv or ydrv. However, I have found no reason not to run it as an extra sfs file on-the-fly thus making use of the adrv for another purpose. If you are lucky, simply renaming the adrv to whatever and loading it as an extra sfs during a session will work when you run the browser from the menu. But it may not, because the correct path of the executable may not be found. So > you will have to check where the executable is loaded (normally /usr/local/lib/light/light) > change the exec entry in the .desktop file accordingly (by editing the .desktop file) and save the changes > run fixmenus from terminal > restart JWM. You should now be able to run the Light Browser from the menu.

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Re: How to run Light Browser as an extra sfs file

Post by rockedge »

The alphabet drv system needs to be improved. I have used the method @amethyst describes also with success, and does expand the capabilities of SFS file system loads with very few steps.

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