Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > Ok, to be honest I did not understand a lot of what was said in your > posts but after several hours of rereading your messages and lots of > goggling :-) I'm still doing that, lastly for git(1). Every time, it sinks in that little bit more. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting:

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Tim
On 29/10/16 15:00, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Patrick, It may be that the only way to terminate Firefox cleanly from outside of Firefox is to simulate a Ctrl+Q keystroke, or the GUI equivalent. Yes, I forgot about multiple windows, only using one myself. Ctrl-Q is the right way. (And easier

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > I was more inclined to question my own mail user agent's behaviour > than the configuration of the list, since it seems to work fine for > everyone else. Yes, didn't think you were complaining; just providing the information you needed about the list's choices to help understand

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 15:38:52, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > The relevant documentation is > https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html > and this list's settings are > > first_strip_reply_to = 0 > reply_goes_to_list = 0 > reply_to_address = '' I was more

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, The relevant documentation is https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html and this list's settings are first_strip_reply_to = 0 reply_goes_to_list = 0 reply_to_address = '' Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-11-01 20:00

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 29 October 2016 15:10:39 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just noticed that my messages to this list seem to be set up > so that replies to them by default go straight to me rather than > the list. This seems wrong to me. Does anyone know what > configuration I need to

Re: [Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 15:10:39, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > I have "Reply-to" set to my own address in my configuration > (As an experiment, I will remove it for this message.) That seems to solve the problem. Apologies for any inconvenience. Patrick -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday,

[Dorset] How to configure "Reply-To" correctly for list?

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi All, I've just noticed that my messages to this list seem to be set up so that replies to them by default go straight to me rather than the list. This seems wrong to me. Does anyone know what configuration I need to change in KMail so that replies go to the list by default? I have

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > It may be that the only way to terminate Firefox cleanly from outside > of Firefox is to simulate a Ctrl+Q keystroke, or the GUI equivalent. Yes, I forgot about multiple windows, only using one myself. Ctrl-Q is the right way. (And easier that getting to the equivalent menu

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 14:29:54, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > It may be that the only way to terminate Firefox cleanly from > outside of Firefox is to simulate a Ctrl+Q keystroke I tried > xdotool search --name "Mozilla Firefox" key ctrl+q which worked. (You probably need to set DISPLAY

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Tim, On Saturday 29 Oct 2016, at 13:06:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Firefox's handling of TERM is unsavoury. It doesn't treat it > like a user's request to quit. You may find one of the > programs that lets you script user actions on the X server is > better, e.g. pretending Firefox's window

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > Here is the bash script > > #!/bin/bash > #Restart Firefox > > killall firefox; sleep 1; firefox & That's assuming firefox exits after receiving the TERM signal before the one-second sleep is up. You'd be better off Testing with pidof if it's running, if not just

Re: [Dorset] Gnome Schedule and script command

2016-10-29 Thread Tim
On 27/10/16 23:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, I have tried adding /home/mit/scripts to my PATH and reverting back to what I had in the command window before ./firefoxrestart.sh but that did not work. ... I found that using this in the command window allows the script to be run from the