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Re: Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?



Dave Carrigan wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:
> 
> >  galeon:
> > 
> >    (setq browse-url-netscape-program "galeon")
> > 
> >   clicking on a URL brings up a new browser each time, not
> >   recycling the initial browser.
> 
> This was talked about a bit in galeon-user. 
> 
> Based on my own findings, it seems that galeon is sensitive to the
> DISPLAY, and if they don't match, then it starts a new browser. I set
> browse-url-netscape-program to be "run-galeon", which is a script that
> looks like
> 
>    #! /bin/sh
>    DISPLAY=:0.0 exec galeon -n $1
> 
> I hard-coded the display because I know that galeon will always have
> been started with that value. 
> 
> This works for me under xemacs.

Workd like a charm under Emacs-21 too.  Many thanks.  I'm glad I
asked!

Peter



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