Re: Firefox 0.9 remote control

I use this script, called moz_launcher....

#!/bin/bash

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

echo "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.

mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl($arg,new-window)"
#
#Now check the return code.
#If non zero, spawn a new mozilla process - remote control is not
needed.

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
#    echo $?
    echo "No existing Firefox - start a new one on site $arg"

firefox $arg
fi


That works for me in both cases (existing firefox or not).  In the gnome
control center, I tell it to use :- 

moz_launcher "%s"

This has now worked across several versions of mozilla, firefox, XD1,
XD2, KDE, evolution and connector.

Paul


On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 22:24, Thomas R. Burkholder wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions but your script didn't work for me.  It fails
> when there is no running instance of firefox as follows
> 
> /path_to_application/firefox-installer/mozilla-xremote-client: Error:
> Failed to find a running server.
> 
> It works just fine when there is a running instance of firefox.
> 
> The original script 
> /path_to_application/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox
> "openurl($arg,new-window)"
> 
> exhibits similar behavior and I found that replacing $arg with $1 and
> new-window with new-tab puts the URL in a new tab as advertised
> 
> My original problem was that I was trying to put the shell script in the
> dialog box, Duh!!  Saving it as an executable script makes it work.
> 
> 
> Tom 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 16:30, jack wallen wrote:
> > here's teh script i'm using to call up firefox:
> > 
> > /opt/firefox/mozilla-xremote-client "openURL($@,new-tab)" || firefox $1
> > &
> > 
> > it took me about a week to get it working right (and a lot of help from
> > a lot of people).
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 16:18, Thomas R. Burkholder wrote:
> > > I'm still having trouble passing the URL to $arg in gnome-control-center
> > > preferred applications. 
> > > 
> > > /path_to_app/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl(URL,new-tab)" 
> > > pulls up URL perfectly from bash.  
> > > 
> > > I've tried:
> > > 
> > > /path_to_app/mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl(%s,new-tab)" 
> > > which pulls up a blank tab and gets redirected to hoovers.com
> > > 
> > > and escaping the %s with '%s' and "%s" which give me a literal %s as a
> > > URL.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions on how to escape the %s so that it gets interpreted
> > > correctly?
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:59, Paul Hands wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I found, like many others, that the remote control of firefox has
> > > > changed from 0.8 to 0.9.  They actually changed the remote control
> > > > functionality, so that existing scripts used to invoke a new window on
> > > > an existing firefox process no longer work.
> > > > 
> > > > The answer is to use the supplied mozilla-xremote-client command, and
> > > > to add the -a firefox argument.
> > > > 
> > > > As an example, the command now looks like this....
> > > > 
> > > > mozilla-xremote-client -a firefox "openurl($arg,new-window)"
> > > > 
> > > > Hope this helps,
> > > > 
> > > > Paul
> > > > 
> > > 
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