On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:03, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 21:21, Iain Buchanan wrote:
[snip]
> Is there any way to force opening web pages in new tabs instead of new
> windows?
[snip]
For this you need to dig a bit into mozilla. I tried mozilla --help and
found (among others):
Mozilla options
-remote <command> Execute <command> in an already running
Mozilla process. For more info, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
So I went to that link (have a read) and found:
openURL (URL, new-tab)
Creates a new tab displaying the specified document. (Available
in 1.0.1, 1.1 and beyond)
Among others. Wow, I didn't even know you could do this :) So I tried
mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.bigpond.com, new-tab)" and voila! I
now have two tabs! pretty cool I think!
However, if no mozilla currently exists, you get an error.
hmmm... You could write a little script then, that uses
mozilla -remote ping()
to see if any mozilla processes are running, and then run openurl
depending on the output. Something like this should do:
#!/bin/sh
if mozilla -remote "ping()"; then
mozilla -remote "openurl($1, new-tab)" &
else
mozilla "$1" &
fi
HTH,
--
Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Q: What do agnostic, insomniac dyslexics do at night?
A: Stay awake and wonder if there's a dog.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
