Xfhelp 4.2 fails in default setting

[Erik Harrison]

Actually, Jasper, the profile manager has been eliminated in the
default install for 1.0pre

The command should still work if it weren't for the Gentoo wrapper, though.

-Erik


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:58:14 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> ...
> >
> > i use Gentoo, which has a  400 line  script to start Firefox:
> > that is the source of the message "No running windows found".
> > Xfce ought to try to work correctly on all the major distros.
> >
> 
> No running windows found is fine. Returning 0 on failure is not.
> 
> > are you really saying that the default installation of Firefox,
> > which other distros follow, requires a user to enter the long line above, ie
> >
> >   firefox -a firefox -remote openurl\("file//<helppath>",new-window\)   ??
> >
> 
> yes
> 
> > surely, whatever the distro, 'firefox URL' should work,
> > ie the 2nd line in the Firefox case in the script above
> > (ordinarily, i wouldn't expect the "..." to be necessary either).
> >
> 
> ... ?
> 
> > why not simply use that 2nd shorter line ?
> >
> 
> firefox in it's default install shows a profile manager when there
> already is another  instance running, so we first try to use that and on
> failure we run regular firefox.
> 
> > and why write the script so that it uses Firefox (if installed)
> > rather than Konqueror or Galeon or Opera ?
> >
> 
> why not?
> 
> 
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-- 
-Erik