mozilla and Evolution

[Matt Morgan]

Seems pretty explanatory to me. Works great for me. It will even open

>> Evolution if it's not already running. :-)
>>
> I tried the FAQ, and it doesn't work quite right for me. For Firefox 
> and Thunderbird, you're supposed to tell mozex to run a shell script 
> that looks like this:
> ---------
> export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/thunderbird
>
> if [ $(ps aux | grep thunderbird | wc -l) -gt 4 ]; then
> # thunderbird is running (thunderbird est lance)
>        $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($1?subject=$2)"
> else
> # thunderbird is not running (thunderbird n'est pas lance)
>        $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -P default -compose 
> mailto:$1?subject=$2;fi
> ---------
> Makes sense. The idea is to use the "remote" option if Thunderbird is 
> already running, so you don't run into the profile manager (god I wish 
> I could turn that off), or the "compose" option if Thunderbird is not 
> running. On my computer it only works when Thunderbird is NOT 
> running--not when it's already up. I get the profile manager.
>
> So I experimented. When I ran
>
> ps aux | grep thunderbird | wc -l
>
> at the command line, I got "3". OK, so I changed the if statement to 
> "-gt 2" instead of "-gt 4". Same problem.
>
> So I experimented some more. I commented everything but these two lines:
>
> export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/thunderbird
> $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/thunderbird -remote "mailto($1?subject=$2)"
>
> Voila! Now it works when Thunderbird is running (but I wouldn't expect 
> it to work when tbird is not running, of course). So this is better 
> but not perfect.
>
>
Nevermind. Switching it to "-gt 1" works fine. I guess within the script 
the ps doesn't see the 'grep thunderbird' so there is one fewer process 
to count.