How to specify browser command when launching cylc gui?

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Hi,

I’ve like to be able to launch the cylc 8 gui with a particular firefox profile, ie firefox -p <profile_name> (so I can have a profile with no bookmarks bar, no menu bar). Is there a config where I can specify this somewhere?

Thanks, Joe

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Hi,

The cylc gui command uses Python’s webbrowser.open interface to pop up your browser, so it is not possible to configure the command that is used.

O

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Ah ok, thanks for the info.

I’ve settled on using the --no-browser option and then manually opening http://localhost:8888/cylc/#/ with my preferred command.

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The Python docs (which Oliver linked to) explain how to configure the browser command.
This works for me:

 export BROWSER="firefox -p <profile_name> %s"
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Briliant! thanks Dave.