Issue
I have ssh'd into my raspberry pi which uses Raspian OS (like Debian). I am trying to launch the default web browser from the terminal but I'm running into problems. I have looked at this post on launching web browsers from terminal. I have tried the xdg-open and the sensible-browser commands however they seem to just display the desired webpage's contents within the terminal. So no actual web browser is launching in the raspberry pi (which is what I want). My default web browser is Midori. So am I using these terminal commands incorrectly, or am I misunderstanding what they are meant to do? To be clear, I want to actually launch the web browser in the dekstop environment using a terminal command. Thanks!
Solution
graphic applications need an environment variable called $DISPLAY to start.
Start your browser in the terminal via ssh like this for exmaple:
user@host:~# DISPLAY=:0 firefox http://www.google.com
The browser will be started in the gui. In your case:
user@host:~# DISPLAY=:0 midori http://www.google.com
Answered By - chaos Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (WPSolving Admin)
