On Friday 29 October 2004 11:43 am, Darrell Cormier wrote:
On Friday 29 October 2004 10:03 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Darrell Cormier <linuxdev@sptc.net> [10-29-04 09:50]:
I am assuming by "shell window" you mean something like xterm or konsole.
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mentioned in the previous post: :~> /usr/bin/firefox -remote 'openURL(%u,new-tab)'
Error: No running window found
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
big _hint_ right above, accented. You do not have a session of firefox running OR... you are starting firefox from two different installs.
open a second shell window, your choice xterm or konsole or ... start firefox from that window
return to the first shell window and issue the 'remote' instruction and post your results.
Same as earlier.
Second Shell: :~>firefox
First Shell: :~>firefox -remote 'openURL(%u,new-tab)'
Error: No running window found
Or
First Shell: :~> firefox &
[1] 8880
:~> firefox -remote 'openURL(%u,new-tab)'
Error: No running window found
Before trying each test above, ran ps -ef |grep irefox to insure that there were not open or <defunct> firfox processes.
Just for grins and to test your theory of more than one installed versions: :~> rpm -qa |grep irefox
MozillaFirefox-0.9.3-1.4
AND
:~> locate irefox |grep bin
/opt/MozillaFirefox/bin /opt/MozillaFirefox/bin/add-plugins.sh /opt/MozillaFirefox/bin/firefox.sh /opt/MozillaFirefox/bin/rebuild-databases.sh /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/components/libinspector.so /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/firefox-bin /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/res/html/gopher-binary.gif /usr/bin/firefox
Therefore, I used the specific path "/usr/bin/firefox" to perform the above tests and again got the same results.
Could this be a bad install of Firefox? I don't think so because I get the same results on two different machines. Both running SuSE 9.1 Pro and MozillaFirefox-0.9.3-1.4
Thanks again, Darrell
One thing that catches my eye is that what is running may not be 'firefox' It could be firefox.bin or some other name.... Try: ps aux | grep -i fire and see what name firefox is running under. Then use the full patch for that when trying the -remote command. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 10/29/04 11:59 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated."