Re: Firefox -Xresource documentation

Sol10_user_swb <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:38:22 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sol10_user_swb wrote:
> Running Firefox 1.5 on Solaris 10, intel platform.  Solaris 10 has a 
> feature where the kernel can be partitioned into zones.  These zones are 
> somewhat analogous to virtual machines.  I have the main (global) zone 
> and a 2nd zone.   Although the processes are supposed to be separated in 
> these zones, if I have firefox started in the main zone, firefox won't 
> run in the 2nd zone, and visa versa.  I'm sending the displays to the 
> same x-server running on an XP box, multi-window mode, no window 
> manager.  I'm suspecting that firefox is picking up that another 
> instance of firefox is running through the WM_CLASS property, detecting 
> it on the X-server.  I'll test further and see if that is so. I am 
> wondering where I could get a list of x-window properties for Firefox 
> that could be overridden in a .Xdefaults file.  I couldn't locate any 
> man pages in this installation.
> 
> Sol10_usr

As a workaround, I set a 2nd window in the Xserver, so that I have a 0.0 
display and a 0.1 display.  The global zone is pointed to 0.0 and the 
2nd zone is pointed to 0.1 and the firefox browsers now run 
independently.   So, it does seem that Firefox detects through X 
resources whether or not an instance is already running in a particular 
X server display.  So, I would like any information on how to start a 
particular instance of Firefox with alternative X resource definitions.

Sol10_usr