Re: a small suggestion about initial configuration

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

This reminds me... this really belongs at bugs.gnome.org, but I have
a problem where gnome-moz-remote will open Netscape, but the URL
won't be entered into the new window, unless netscape is already 
running. Basically, I have to run gnome-moz-remote twice, except in
programs like GAIM which blocks until Netscape closes, precluding that
possibility. Annnnnyway, is this a valid bug, or am I doing something
stupid?

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 15:15:31 Jeremy Teitelbaum wrote:
> Dear Gnome developers,
> 
> This is a very small suggestion regarding the way the distribution
> treats the netscape icon in the panel.
> 
> Currently, clicking on that icon generates a new netscape instance.
> This produces an error.  It's silly to continually quit and restart
> netscape, and it's silly to have an icon on the desktop
> that can only be pressed once.
> 
> I suggest that, in the initial distribution, the netscape launcher
> button on the panel point to something like the following (probably
> you experts can make something more elegant)
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> if ps | grep -v grep | grep -q '/usr/lib/netscape' ; 
> then 
> netscape -raise -remote 'OpenURL()' ; 
> exit ; 
> fi ; 
> netscape 
> 
> This has the effect that clicking on the netscape icon when netscape
> is already running brings up the netscape window with a URL prompt.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy T.
> 
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