On Wednesday 14 January 2004 20:01, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:21, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Here's a question for you web gurus:  what I want to do is to control a
> > web browser programmatically, specifically to tell an open browser window
> > to open a new URL automagically rather than typing it in.  It could be
> > any Linux browser:  Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Konqueror, Opera - maybe
> > even Lynx.
>
> Try these:
>
> galeon -x yahoo.com
> netscape -remote 'openURL(http://home.netscape.com)'
> mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)"
>
Kevin,
Excellent!  Exactly what I was looking for!  Mozilla works fine, haven't 
tried galeon yet, and netscape fails with this goofy error:

netscape-communicator: root window has no children on display :0.0

This shouldn't be a problem, because running "env" shows very clearly that

DISPLAY=:0.0 

And Netscape was definitely up and running.

Perhaps my version of netscape  (4.77) is old and broken.
Thanks,

Vaughn

>
> See also:
> http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html
> http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
>
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