Re: KDE and Mozilla 1.2

[Matt Tesauro <mtesauro@cgsb.tamu.edu>]

I know this is a bit late but I just found out about this feature of Mozilla 
in the recent Linux Magazine article.  Apparently Moz on *nix's can connect 
to currently running Mozilla processes.  From the Moz web site:
<quote>
     When Netscape Navigator is invoked with the -remote argument, it does not 
open a window, but instead connects to and controls an already-existing 
process. The argument to the -remote switch is an Xt action to invoke, with 
optional arguments.
     Remote control is implemented using X properties, so the two processes 
need not be running on the same machine, and need not share a file system.
...
Example usage:
  mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)"
</quote>
(quote from http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html)
Particularly interesting are "openURL (URL, new-window)" and "openURL (URL, 
new-tab)".  
     This may not solve your problem, but may provide a decent work around.  I 
added a new item with K Menu Editor and used the command 
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote "openurl(http://business.tamu.edu, 
new-window)" instead of /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla.  This will open a new 
window if Moz is already running.  Unfortunately, if Moz isn't running, you 
get a "No running window found." error (from the command line)  If you wanted 
to get fancy, you could write a shell script that check if Moz was running or 
not and make the correct call...

-- 
Matt Tesauro
Systems Analyst and Web Applications Developer
Office of the Dean
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
979.862.3949
mtesauro@cgsb.tamu.edu
--
No sense in being pessimistic, 
   It wouldn't work anyway...

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 10:30 am, Anders E. Andersen wrote:
> Hi there.. Sorry if this seems a bit off topic but I'm having rather big
> difficulties with the new Mozilla1.2 from unstable.
>
> Most annoyingly when I click the panel buttons to start one of the
> components of mozilla and I already have one of the components open then
> mozilla refuses to open the new component saying the profile is in use.
>
> I am using KDE 3.0.4
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Anders