epiphany instead of firefox in xubuntu

try this:

sudo ln -s `which epiphany` /usr/bin/firefox

should be ok.

Running this command on the commandline should solve your problem.
$ sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser

Thanks actionparship and Hans Spaans for your help. I would like to implement your solutions, however, the Applications/Places, etc. menu bar line has disappeared from the screen. At the moment I only see the cursor (an arrow). Everything else has vanished.

I guess that some kind of a combination of keys I pressed has caused this new situation. Booting the system does not give me back the normal start screen.

I do not know how to resolve this. Should I go to the book shop and buy a manual f.i. ''Beginning Ubuntu Linux''? (I have a lot of experience with DOS/Windows but not with (X)ubuntu/Linux). I remember being in this situation before. Then I could only get out of it through reinstalling Xubuntu.

Thank you again for your assistance, kind regards, Daniel Hoogland

Thanks actionparship and Hans Spaans for your help. I would like to implement your solutions, however, the Applications/Places, etc. menu bar line has disappeared from the screen. At the moment I only see the cursor (an arrow). Everything else has vanished.

I guess that some kind of a combination of keys I pressed has caused this new situation. Booting the system does not give me back the normal start screen.

I do not know how to resolve this. Should I go to the book shop and buy a manual f.i. ''Beginning Ubuntu Linux''? (I have a lot of experience with DOS/Windows but not with (X)ubuntu/Linux). I remember being in this situation before. Then I could only get out of it through reinstalling Xubuntu.

Thank you again for your assistance, kind regards, Daniel Hoogland

Thanks actionparship and Hans Spaans for your help. I would like to implement your solutions, however, the Applications/Places, etc. menu bar line has disappeared from the screen. At the moment I only see the cursor (an arrow). Everything else has vanished.

I guess that some kind of a combination of keys I pressed has caused this new situation. Booting the system does not give me back the normal start screen.

I do not know how to resolve this. Should I go to the book shop and buy a manual f.i. ''Beginning Ubuntu Linux''? (I have a lot of experience with DOS/Windows but not with (X)ubuntu/Linux). I remember being in this situation before. Then I could only get out of it through reinstalling Xubuntu.

Thank you again for your assistance, kind regards, Daniel Hoogland

Press ALT+F2
type: gnome-terminal
Press ENTER
paste (or type ACCURATELY): gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel

Should get the panels back

Hello actionparsnip,

Alt+F2 resulted in the "Run program" subscreen. Then I typed: gnome-terminal (+Enter).
Xubuntu responded: Failed to execute child process 'gnome-terminal' (No such file or directory).

Then I typed: gconftool --recursive-unset/apps/panel && killall gnome-panel (+Enter).

The subscreen disappeared and the screen became black again (with only the arrow-cursor).

So I am still stuck. Do you have other suggestions? Thanks in advance, regards, Daniel.

Hello actionparsnip,

I did what was written in the thread you sent me. The panels are there as long as the terminal is there as well. When the (minimized) terminal window is closed everything else is closed too.

I will keep the (minimized) terminal window on the screen in order to have the top line (Applications, Places, etc.) in sight.

Thanks for your help, regards, Daniel

Use the ALT+F2 menu instead. If you add the command you add to the startup items in the normal fashion, it will run as normal.