Re: Epiphany open page

On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 06:56 -0500, wes wrote:
> > Any help please?
> 
> i do not claim to be qualified or able, but i will do my best to pretend.
> 
> what is your operating system?
> 
fedora 17, and hence, using epiphany 3.4
> 
> in my version of epiphany (not the same as yours) the homepage setting is located under Edit >> Preferences >> General.
> 
Unfortunately, there is no homepage setting in my version of  epiphany.
> 
> >> and when epy is already open, just
> >> open the external link.
> 
> do you mean "...open the link in an already-open browser window, in a new tab?
> if so, you might try replacing that line in epiphany.desktop that you edited with this line, instead:
> 
> Exec=epiphany --new-tab %U
yes, but, without having a facility of setting homepage, I edited  Exec
as Exec=epiphany --new-tab example.com %U
My goal is to open example.com when the epiphany window is NOT already
open, but if it is open, I don't want epiphany to open the link I
clicked with example.com once again.
> 
> if your present value for that Exec key does indeed cause the undesirable behavior you describe, this might work.
> 
> does it?
> 
> -wes
> 
> 
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> 
> > Any help please?
> > On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 01:41 +0000, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> >> Dear Friends,
> >> I want epiphany to open a page,say example.com every time I start epy.
> >> So I edited epiphany.desktop exec=epiphany --new-tab example.com
> >>
> >> The problem is when I am opening an external link, it is opening
> >> example.com and the link.
> >> so what I am looking for is to ask epiphany to open example.com only
> >> when no epy window is already open; and when epy is already open, just
> >> open the external link.
> >> Any easy way of doing this?
> >> I am in epy3.4
> >>
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