Hi Robert, Over here, if I issue help.start() and I have a running konqueror on the current virtual desktop, then the R intro page is shown in a new tab on that window, and subsequent help calls open tabs in that window. So I usually don't have the situation that R would have to choose to which konqueror window to send the help pages.
However, if I deliberately start a new konqueror window, this new one is being used by kfmclient newTab. If you have three konqueror windows on your virtual desktop, things get complicated :) My suggestion would be to stick to one konqueror window per virtual desktop. Johannes * Robert King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071116 00:20]: > While we're on the KDE magic, how can I get help.start() to open a new > konqueror window, then have following help calls open new tabs in *that* > window. I tried > > > help.start() > Making links in per-session dir ... > If 'sensible-browser' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and > you must switch to its window. > Otherwise, be patient ... > > options(browser="kfmclient newTab") > > ?help.start > > but this opened a new tab for the help.start help in another konqueror window > on the current desktop, rather than the one that just opened. (the same > happened with > > > help.start(browser="kfmclient") > Changing the default browser (as specified by the 'browser' option) to > the given browser so that it gets used for all future help > requests. > Making links in per-session dir ... > If 'kfmclient' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must > switch to its window. > Otherwise, be patient ... > > options(browser="kfmclient newTab") > > ?help.start > > Thanks, > Robert. > > On Thursday 15 November 2007 0:11, Adrian Dusa wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > > > I just tried to use konqueror as a pager as well - it just opens showing > > > my home folder, as Adrian described. It might be because the help > > > contents are piped into the pager. Konqueror (and its alias kfmclient) > > > is not a pager, althought it is a lot of other things. > > > > > > I suggest to use HTML help, at least if you happen to use KDE as a > > > desktop environment. Either you just issue the command help.start() from > > > within your R session, or you can make HTML help the default. I just > > > recalled that there is this R option, and I now have following lines in > > > my .Rprofile: > > > > > > options(htmlhelp=TRUE) > > > options(browser="kfmclient newTab") > > > > Brilliant, thanks very much Johannes that solves it. > > All the best, > > Adrian > > -- > Robert King, Statistics, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, > University of Newcastle, Australia (CRICOS Provider Number: 00109J) > Room V133 ph +61 2 4921 5548 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/ > > "It might be in the basement, > I'll go upstairs and check .." Escher > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Dr. Johannes Ranke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: F649AF90 UFT Bremen, Leobenerstr. 1 +49 421 218 63373 D-28359 Bremen http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
