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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