On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:14:37PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:20:01AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > > I want to start up a second copy of Firefox occasionally completely > > independent of my 'main' running copy of Firefox. > > > > This is possible by setting up a new profile and using the -no-remote > > option to Firefox so it doesn't try to sue the existing Firefox > > instance. > > > > However I have the following in my .fvwm2rc file:- > > > > Style Firefox-bin StartsOnPage 1 0 0, SkipMapping > > > > > > How can I give my new copy of Firefox a different name so that it > > doesn't get put on the same page as my main Firefox? > > You can't, firefox does not seem to have any option for that, and > I see no way to satisfy your needs in fvwm. > > > Firefox doesn't > > have the -name command line parameter, is there any way that I can > > identify it as a different window to FVWM? > > No, fvwm has no way of guessing if a given window was created by > one instance of an application or by a different one. > > The only way I can think of to solve your problem would be to run > a nested X server with xnest in a window and start your sencond > copy of firefox there. > Well thanks for confirming that I'm not missing anything anyway! :-)
I did wonder if I renamed the Firefox executable and started the renamed one it would have a different name. That's not trivial either because of all the scripts wrapped around it. -- Chris Green
