On Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:42:56 BST Alan Grimes wrote: [snip ...] > All of the followning statemens are true: > > 1. I am never not running seamonkey, it is always open at all times on > my left hand monitor, If at any point it was not on my left hand monitor > either I must have been going through a power failure or something had > broken it, because it is working at the moment I have decided not to use > emerge update for the next six months, two months in to that period at > this point. > > 2. Seamonkey is my default browser. > > 3. Seamonkey cannot be launched twice, ie it cannot be launched on my > right hand monitor because the monitors are using separte X servers and > it would need to be launched twice to come up on that monitor.
Does a new web browser instance/window/tab have to come up in your RH monitor? > 4. many applications that I run on my right hand monitor try to launch > my default browser which always reports an error message because it is > already running on a different monitor. > > > Therefore I need to obliterate the concept of a default web browser from > my machine. I can think of a couple of options here instead of unsetting a default browser, but I don't know how you may have configured your desktop environment: 1. You could set up a different default web browser. Take a look at 'man xdg-settings' or for a primer check https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html. You'll still run seamonkey as you do anyway, all you'll use the default browser is for other applications to launch ad-hoc. 2. You could create a customized .desktop file for your seamonkey browser in your ~/.local/share/applications/ by copying the relevant .desktop file from / usr/share/applications/ and changing any sections in it, like [Desktop Action new-window], or [Desktop Action new-tab]. This will open a new window or tab in the same instance of the already running seamonkey. Others may know of different ways to achieve the same.
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