Re: FVWM: netscape

From: Stephen Riehm <Stephen.Riehm_at_PC-Plus.DE>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:14:24 +0200 (MEZ)

Hi Richard Lister,

> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:01:11 +0100 (BST)
> Graeme.McCaffery_at_astro.cf.ac.uk (Graeme McCaffery)
> wrote concerning 'FVWM: netscape':

> > basically I thought I would use a function to send a message to an
> > existing netscape or start up a new one with the hightlight text in question.

> Grab xcb from ftp://www.x.org/contrib/utilities/ and use it in a
> script like this:

A slightly modified version of the script would be as follows, so that
netscape always gets tried with -remote first - otherwise if you tell
fvwm to start a new netscape, but you've got nothing selected, you'll
always get a new netscape, and netscape doesn't like sharing with
itself :-) (In my version of the script, I start netscape on a remote
machine, so I've got to pass the DISPLAY to the script aswell)

#!/bin/sh

DISPLAY=${1:-${DISPLAY}}
export DISPLAY

url=`xcb -S 0 && xcb -p 0`

if [ -n "$url" ]
then
  netscape -remote openURL\("$url"\) \
    || exec netscape "$url" &
else
  exec netscape -remote \
    || exec netscape &
fi

exit 0

PS: Thanks to Graeme for the idea, I love it!

Steve
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Received on Mon Jun 02 1997 - 09:19:02 BST

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