Re: Epiphany open page

wes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.epiphany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Unfortunately, there is no homepage setting in my version of  epiphany.

can you use dconf?

  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1093406#p1093406

> [...] without having a facility of setting homepage, I edited  Exec
> as Exec=epiphany --new-tab example.com %U
> My goal is [1] to open example.com when the epiphany window is NOT already
> open, but [2] if it is open, I don't want epiphany to open the link I
> clicked with example.com once again.

i take it that

   Exec=epiphany --new-tab example.com %U

achieves [1], but not [2].

if the link above does not apply to your case, i'm afraid this is out of my depth.

cheers,
wes



On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Rudra Banerjee wrote:

> 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
>>
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