On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeremy Craven wrote:
> Does anyone else encounter problems with web browser choices in
> analysis/format converter ?
I don't but...
> On my setup when I start up analysis, the choices for the web browser are
> mozilla and firefox (in that order).
On my RedHat EL 3 I get that and on Fedora 4/6 I get a wider choice with
"htmlview" as the default.
> I actually regularly use firefox (thinking it may be more compatible with the
> rest of the world and our University policies), but mozilla has an html
> editor in it.
>
> So I switch it to firefox. But if I go to format converter (fired up from
> within analysis) there is no option to set, and it tries to fire up mozilla.
> Just now on the first call to "help" that did work, but on the second time
> the URL was "-raise" and mozilla gave the error that "www.-raise.com could
> not be found".
>
> Just trying again with analysis restarted and leaving the browser as mozilla,
> then I get the "-raise" problem (seemingly regardless of whether mozilla was
> already running or not, which did not seem to be the behaviour in
> formatConverter).
I managed to catch the call to mozilla on my RHEL box (ps -ef | grep
<username> | grep mozilla; shortly after hitting a help button) and it is
coming out as e.g.
/bin/sh /usr/bin/mozilla -raise -remote openURL(file:/usr/local/ccpnmr/ccpnmr1.0/doc/ccpnmr/analysis/EditMolSystemsPopup.html)
as far as I can see the -raise is not generated by CCPN code so must come
from the python html viewer handling code.
I can't find any documentation for a -raise command line option for
mozilla, but it doesn't seem to cause a problem to my mozilla or firefox
versions. My guess is that it usually gets thrown away by
mozilla/firefox. Which particular mozilla/firefox are you using?
> I have also previously had the case (that I cannot now replicate) that the
> browser fired up, but took me to my home page, but that pressing "back" got
> me to the required help info).
I get similar, but different behaviour if e.g. firefox is set as the help
viewer but isn't already running - first a window appears showing my
homepage and then one with the appropriate help module. Looking at the
horrendous firefox startup script, I would say that this is a problem on
the browser side, not on the analysis side! The "htmlview" script that
Fedora distros seem to default to appear to do a good job of cleaning up
the command (the -raise seems to get binned too) so that firefox fires up
showing just what you want. Might be worth looking at htmlview and
setting a .htmlviewrc or whatever on your CentOS?
Brian
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