Setting Default apps with minimal WMs (dwm, awesome, etc)

How are folks running WMs like awesome and dwm setting their default applications (I'm particularly interested in the web-browser setting)?
On past systems, I've had GNOME installed, and just used the preferred applications dialogue, but that's not the case in my current system.
Does anyone know where dwm/awesome look for default app settings, and how I'm able to change those settings?

For example, in your shell config:
export BROWSER="your-browser"
There's nothing like that in either Awesome or dwm. And I don't think one really needs it. In case you want to open certain file types in dedicated applications, you can e.g. define aliases to achieve this. (Everything depends on the shell you use, or the file manager. In my case Midnight Commander together with zsh does the job well.)
Edit: consider me slowww, always a couple of minutes slowwwer.
Last edited by bohoomil (2011-03-15 21:57:44)

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