Re: [Evolution] How does Evolution open a URL in a new tab in firefox?

[Van Snyder <van snyder sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 12:57 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:

On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 18:42 -0800, Van Snyder wrote:

How does Evolution open a URL in a new tab in firefox?

I can't do it from the command line. Online discussion says to use

the "--new-tab" command-line option, but firefox always puts up a

window saying it's already running, and inviting me to create a new

profile.

I have other applications for which Id like to open a new tab (or new

window), not start another instance of firefox, such as kalarm.

Dolphin can do it too. Nautilus can do it.

How does Evolution (or dolphin or nautilus) do it?

Evolution (or the others) don't actually do it themselves. They use

xdg-open which opens whatever in the users preferred application. So

something like

  xdg-open http://www.gnome.org

will open the wewbsite in your preferred browser using the configured

mechanism (new window, new tab, etc.).  This applies to not just URLs -

it works for files - give it a .docx file, it will open LibreOffice,

give it an image, it will open gimp etc. etc.

Thanks for the explanation. That works from my command line, but doesn't work in kalarm.

P.

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