Re: pgAdmin 4 ignores its own config option: "BrowserCommand"

Tutiluren,

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:16 PM <tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com> wrote:

> I don't know what you mean by right-clicking on the pgAdmin 4 Taskbar icon
> and selecting "Configure", because no such thing appears when I do that.
> The only other option other than running it is "Unpin".
>
> > Here are a few pictures (from Windows 10) that I hope will illustrate:
> the notification icon in the taskbar (the blue elephant, it might be
hidden)
[image: pgAdmin4_notification_icon.png]

>The context menu when you right-click that icon
[image: pgAdmin4_notification_context_menu.png]

>The dialog box that appears when you select 'Configure'
[image: pgAdmin4_configure_dialog.png]
> and yes even though I took these on a Windows 10 machine (not my usual
one) the example string in the 'Browser Command' text box is linux/macOs.

As for the quotes around the path, it's required for the path to the
> Firefox.exe to be recognized properly. I did try without quotes around
> %URL%, though. Same thing. It doesn't run the command.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "it" in "I can't say whether or not it
> honors alternate profiles", but pgAdmin doesn't need to support anything
> whatsoever; it's all about what Firefox does with the command parameters...
> but that command is not being sent. pgAdmin 4 appears to be ignoring its
> own config setting.
>
> > *it* refers to pgAdmin4. The question I was wondering about was
whether pgAdmin4 sends the complete browser command, or if the syntax was
somehow incorrect.

>
> 9 Aug 2019, 00:05 by rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com:
>
> tutiluren,
>
> I am sorry to read that you are still having difficulties. The
> MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED string is documented in the pgAdmin4 documentation
> located here:
> https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/development/master_password.html .
> As for the BrowserCommand I usually set it in the configure dialog that I
> get to by right clicking on the *elephant* taskbar icon and selecting
> "Configure". My command is: *chromium-browser %URL% , *this is stored
> as:
>
> *BrowserCommand=chromium-browser %URL%*
>
> in my pgadmin4.conf file. Notice there are *no* *"* around the
> arguments, unlike your string. Yes, the config.py, config_distro.py and
> config_local.py all contain keywords in the
> ALL_CAPS_SEPARATED_BY_UNDERSCORES while the pgadmin4.config file uses
> MixedCaseAllRunTogether. It is a bit inconsistent.
>
> I can't say whether or not it honors alternate profiles, as I just use an
> alternate *browser*, but perhaps it didn't like all of your quotes.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> rik.
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:44 PM <tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Okay, so after 30 million years of searching and reading and swearing and
> cursing, I've finally found the "BrowserCommand" configuration directive.
> So I set my C:\Program Files (x86)\pgAdmin 4\v4\web\config_local.py to:
>
> MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=False
> BrowserCommand="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p "pgAdmin"
> --no-remote "%URL%"
>
> But when I then click the pgAdmin 4 start icon ("C:\Program Files
> (x86)\pgAdmin 4\v4\runtime\pgAdmin4.exe"), it *still* opens Firefox
> (default browser) with the DEFAULT profile. In other words, it ignores my
> BrowserCommand, which tells it to open the URL in the "pgAdmin" profile,
> which I've spent significant efforts setting up just for pgAdmin 4, so that
> I can finally use the program without being constantly harassed for
> passwords and losing all my work whenever Firefox needs to be restarted.
>
> And no, there is nothing wrong with the command itself; I use it with
> other profiles. But pgAdmin is clearly ignoring it. What's wrong?
>
> Also, MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED is undocumented on
> https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.11/desktop_deployment.html , and
> doesn't use the same format (it would be MasterPasswordRequired if it were
> to follow the style of the other options)... What's up with that?
>
> > I hope that helps,
>

> rik.