[Gllug] Mozilla 1.3 SRPM on RedHat 7.2

[Tethys]

Huw Lynes writes:

>To get round the two mozillas running at once you need to put a wrapper script
>around mozilla with a bit of intelligence in it. Using the "mozilla -remote" 
>family of commands. e.g.
>
>mozilla -remote "ping()" to see if moz is running
>mozilla -remote "OpenURL(http://yourhomepage, new-window)" spawns a new mozill
>a window off the existing one.
>
>I agree it's a bit of a bitch to have to do this yourself. I have no idea why 
>this stuff is not in the default mozilla startup script.

It is in the RPM versions, but not in the others. No idea why. However,
it's a clumsy workaround, and doesn't fix the problem for me, since it
only works on single headed machines. Try for example:

	mozilla &
	Xnest :1 &
	DISPLAY=:1 mozilla

Worse, it completely screws up when you try to run Mozilla on a remote
machine. Try:

	mozilla &
	ssh remotehost mozilla

The remotehost will issue the ping, find a local mozilla running and
open a new window on the local mozilla instance, rather than start
Mozilla on the remote machine, displaying locally.

I love Mozilla as a browser, but they seem to have seriously screwed
up in their development mentality -- it seems to have been heavily
influenced by the whole Win/Mac concept of only have one user on the
machine doing one thing at any given time. Oh, and it doesn't accept
-geometry arguments, which makes it a pain in the ass to start up at
login time...

Tet

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