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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!
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Type "chrome" without quotation marks to run Chrome from the terminal. Chrome is installed in your binary path, so no special directory is required.
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
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