On 03/24/2004 09:46 AM, Wolfgang wrote:
I tried the FAQ, and it doesn't work quite right for me. For Firefox and Thunderbird, you're supposed to tell mozex to run a shell script that looks like this:I tried that once, following the instructions pretty carefully, and couldn't get it to work (firefox & thunderbird).ut is there a way to tell mozilla to use evolution as its default mailI use Thunderbird and Firefox and installed the mozex extension to achieve this functionality.
program instead of mozilla mail.
Just check the FAQ details on the website which was posted on a previous post. Here's the link
http://mozex.mozdev.org/
Seems pretty explanatory to me. Works great for me. It will even open Evolution if it's not already running. :-)
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export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/thunderbird
if [ $(ps aux | grep thunderbird | wc -l) -gt 4 ]; then
# thunderbird is running (thunderbird est lance)
$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($1?subject=$2)"
else
# thunderbird is not running (thunderbird n'est pas lance)
$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -P default -compose mailto:$1?subject=$2;fi
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Makes sense. The idea is to use the "remote" option if Thunderbird is already running, so you don't run into the profile manager (god I wish I could turn that off), or the "compose" option if Thunderbird is not running. On my computer it only works when Thunderbird is NOT running--not when it's already up. I get the profile manager.
So I experimented. When I ran
ps aux | grep thunderbird | wc -l
at the command line, I got "3". OK, so I changed the if statement to "-gt 2" instead of "-gt 4". Same problem.
So I experimented some more. I commented everything but these two lines:
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/thunderbird $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($1?subject=$2)"
Voila! Now it works when Thunderbird is running (but I wouldn't expect it to work when tbird is not running, of course). So this is better but not perfect.
Anyway, all I can figure is there's something wrong with that if statement. What could it be? The script never thinks Thunderbird is running, when the if statement is operating.
Thanks, Matt
