Seems pretty explanatory to me. Works great for me. It will even open
Evolution if it's not already running. :-)
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:
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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.
Nevermind. Switching it to "-gt 1" works fine. I guess within the script
the ps doesn't see the 'grep thunderbird' so there is one fewer process
to count.
