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On Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:42:56 BST Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> All of the followning statemens are true: |
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> 1. I am never not running seamonkey, it is always open at all times on |
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> my left hand monitor, If at any point it was not on my left hand monitor |
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> either I must have been going through a power failure or something had |
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> broken it, because it is working at the moment I have decided not to use |
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> emerge update for the next six months, two months in to that period at |
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> this point. |
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> 2. Seamonkey is my default browser. |
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> 3. Seamonkey cannot be launched twice, ie it cannot be launched on my |
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> right hand monitor because the monitors are using separte X servers and |
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> it would need to be launched twice to come up on that monitor. |
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Does a new web browser instance/window/tab have to come up in your RH monitor? |
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> 4. many applications that I run on my right hand monitor try to launch |
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> my default browser which always reports an error message because it is |
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> already running on a different monitor. |
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> Therefore I need to obliterate the concept of a default web browser from |
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> my machine. |
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I can think of a couple of options here instead of unsetting a default |
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browser, but I don't know how you may have configured your desktop environment: |
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1. You could set up a different default web browser. Take a look at 'man |
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xdg-settings' or for a primer check https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ |
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basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html. You'll still run seamonkey as you do |
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anyway, all you'll use the default browser is for other applications to launch |
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ad-hoc. |
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2. You could create a customized .desktop file for your seamonkey browser in |
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your ~/.local/share/applications/ by copying the relevant .desktop file from / |
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usr/share/applications/ and changing any sections in it, like [Desktop Action |
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new-window], or [Desktop Action new-tab]. This will open a new window or tab |
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in the same instance of the already running seamonkey. |
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Others may know of different ways to achieve the same. |