Ben Barrett wrote:
> Check this out, though; a quick
> story about me being impressed at the integration of Gnome: when I
> remote-ssh my evolution session, links open in a local browser session.
Are you running Mozilla (or a derivative) as your browser? Here's
how it works, and it's not Gnome-specific.
The X Window System has the notion of a "property" which can be
attached to any window. A property is a name and a bit of binary data
(usually a text string). Any X client can set properties on any
window, and any X client can request an event (XPropertyEvent)
whenever a property changes on a given window.
You can examine and set window properties using the xprop program.
Mozilla uses X properties to communicate between Mozilla and a program
called mozilla-xremote-client. The xremote-client sets a property on
the root window of your X display which Mozilla interprets as "open a
window with this URL". It's actually more complicated than that --
they do a handshake, etc. But the net effect [sic] is that any
program that can access your X display can send commands to Mozilla.
That's kind of the point of X being a network-transparent window
system.
The mozilla top level shell script can invoke mozilla-xremote-client
for you. Here is the documentation of its functionality. You can use
this trick to invoke mozilla from a shell script, Perl, Python, or a C
program (obviously).
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
Of course, if you're not using Mozilla (nor Galeon nor epiphany nor
skipstone nor ...) then this doesn't apply.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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