I have installed sagemath on my computer. Now I would like to change some default configuration options. For example my default browser is Firefox but I would like sage to use Chrome. If possible I would also like to define default home directory on sage. I presume there is a configuration file....where can I find it?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Put any relevant commands in $HOME/.sage/init.sage.
To set a default browser, use the viewer.browser(...) command or set the environment variable SAGE_BROWSER.
Thank you! I am using sage in a linux system. In my home/.sage folder there seems to be no init.sage folder. What I have instead are the following folders: cache,
db,
gap,
gp-expect.log,
ipython,
ipython-2.1.0,
ipython-2.3.0,
ipython-2.3.0.p0,
ipython-3.0.0.p1,
ipython-4.0.0,
ipython_genutils-0.1.0,
matplotlib-1.1.0,
matplotlib-1.3.1,
matplotlib-1.4.3,
matplotlib-1.5.0,
matplotlib-1.5.1,
R,
sage_notebook.sagenb,
sage.txt,
temp,
tmp
init.sage should be a file, not a folder, and you should create it if it doesn't exist.
Oh, and it is a .sage file, so use Sage syntax in it.
Thank you. I didn't have an environment variable SAGE_BROWSER in my bash profile so I created one in my .bashrc file. However it still doesnt seem to implement it. Any ideas?
Maybe a silly question, but did you open a new shell so that changes in your .bashrc file took effect? If you run the shell command export, does it list SAGE_BROWSER? Meanwhile, you can experiment without restarting the shell by running export SAGE_BROWSER='/usr/local/bin/my_favorite_browser' and then running Sage.
I accepted the answer above. In the spirit of someone else having similar issue here is what worked for me. I found the sage documentation somewhat unclear.
I took the following steps:
Create a init.sage file in .sage folder (most likely located in home folder) with the following code in it.
Use the code :
from sage.misc.viewer import viewer
where YOUR_FAV_BROWSER is the browser you want.
viewer.browser('open -a /path to your_fav_browser/YOUR_FAV_BROWSER')
Add the code export SAGE_BROWSER="YOUR_FAV_BROWSER"
NOTE: I am assuming bash already knows the path to YOUR_FAV_BROWSER.
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