To set or change the default home page in the Lynx web browser on a Unix system, you can edit the lynx.cfg
configuration file.
The lynx.cfg
file is typically located in the /etc
or /usr/local/etc
directory. To edit the file, you will need to use a text editor, such as vi
or nano
.
To set the default home page in Lynx, locate the following line in the lynx.cfg
file:
STARTFILE:http://www.google.com/
Replace http://www.google.com/
with the URL of the home page you want to use. Save the changes to the lynx.cfg
file and exit the text editor.
The next time you start Lynx, the new home page will be used as the default.
It is important to note that you may need to have root privileges to edit the lynx.cfg
file. If you do not have root privileges, you can use the -cfg
option to specify a different configuration file when starting Lynx. For example:
lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc
This will use the configuration file ~/.lynxrc
instead of the global lynx.cfg
file. You can create and edit this file to set the default home page for your user account.