Re: [Evolution] sending urls to firefox

[Paul Hands <phands cadence com>]

Hi,

I've got firefox working by a small piece of indirection : I use a small script to invoke firefox, and I tell gconf to use that script.  It's called moz_launcher, and it's on my path, so it's always found.  I tell gconf to use :-

moz_launcher "%s"

Where %s is the URL passed by evolution.  I thionk you may be having problems passing the "-remote" stuff, because, as far as I can tell, the %s part needs to be in "" to work.  Mayne some Ximian or scri[pting expert can shed light on this?

The script is :-

#!/bin/bash

#Check an arg got passed
#for arg in "$@"
#do
#       if [ "$arg" != "" ]; then
#               echo "Got an arg :- $arg"
#        fi
#done

#Try to launch a new window on an existing browser process.
#If it fails, return code will be non-zero, and we will need to start a new one.
/opt/firefox/firefox -remote "openurl($arg, new-window)"
#
#Now check the return code.
#If non zero, spawn a new mozilla process.

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "No existing Firefox - start a new one on site $arg"
    /opt/firefox/firefox $arg > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi


The commented out section near the start is a trivial debug aid - if you uncomment it, and start evolution from an interactive shell, you can see what is being passed.  It's by no means a good example of scripting!  It doesn't do much that's clever; it uses absolute path names to where firefox is.....

But it works!

Regards,

Paul



On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 06:17, amarpreet rattan wrote:
> hmmmm,
>
> I am trying out firefox and i am having trouble sending urls to it from
> evoltion.
>
> what i am doing is changing the http handler in gconf.  the code i am
> using is 
>
> firefox -remote "openurl(%s,new-tab)"
>
> and things like that.  This sends SOMETHING to firefox, just not the
> right one, so it is somewhat working.  I know that i have tried
> everything imaginable except the right one.
>
> any hints?
>
> amps
>
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