On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:13:14PM +0100, Pontus Lidman wrote: > Hello, > > I've wondered why my gnome mini-commander can't open URL's, and I have > tracked the problem to this point: > > willynilly:~% netscape -remote openURL http://www.av.com > netscape-remote: not running on display :0.0 > > but I do have netscape up and running on this display. I start it using > the default icon in the gnome panel. I have also tried running the > "netscape" command in a shell.
I played around with this on my potato machine (same version?) and it seems to not work as advertised in the netscape-remote man page. First, I think your syntax is off, try: netscape -remote 'openUrl(http://www.av.com)' The parenthesis and quotes are apparently necessary. However, despite what the man page says, it is not starting Netscape if Netscape is not already running excerpt form man netscape-remote: DESCRIPTION netscape-remote is used to remotely control the Netscape web browser. If it is called, and there is no Netscape running, it will start a new one and pass the action com mand on to it. Otherwise, it will pass the action command to an already running Netscape. $ netscape-remote -remote 'openUrl(http://calico)' netscape-remote: not running on display :1.0 or even: $ netscape-remote -remote 'openUrl()' netscape-remote: not running on display :1.0 which is supposed to prompt you for a URL. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
