Re: [Evolution] Selecting URLs when Mozilla is already launched

[Rick Friedman <thelinuxway mailworks org>]

Guenther,

I was having the same problem that Mike was. Your advice helped solve it
for me also. Although, I found that, besides changing default-show, I
also needed to change http-show and https-show.

Thanks!

Rick

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 18:59, guenther wrote:
> cheers();
>
> > I have set up Mozilla as my default browser in the Gnome Control Center.
> > If I click on a URL in a mail message when Mozilla is already launched,
> > instead of showing the URL in the existing Mozilla window, Evolution
> > tries to re-launch Mozilla, which fails because it is already launched.
> > Is there a way to get around this?
>
> What version of Gnome?
>
>
> Check your ~/.gnome/Gnome file. You need gnome-moz-remote instead of
> mozilla. It should look like that:
>
> [URL Handlers]
> default-show=gnome-moz-remote --newwin "%s"
>
>
> gnome-moz-remote %s
>  will only open a new mozilla, when none running
>  displays the URL in the current mozilla (old content overwritten)
>
> gnome-moz-remote --newwin %s
>  will only open a new mozilla, when none running
>  displays the URL in a new mozilla window
>
>
> I use the following default-show entry:
>
> default-show=/home/guenther/bin/mozilla-remote "%s"
>
> With the attached mozilla-remote script (must be executable) it acts
> like the --newwin option, but displays the new URL in a new *tab* if
> there is already a mozilla running.
>
> I don't loose the displayed URL and can even click multiple URLs and see
> them all in the same mozilla.
>
> Hope that answers all your questions...
>
> ...guenther
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Rick Friedman <thelinuxway mailworks org>