On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:59:19PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I have been using a mac for work lately, and have installed conkeror
> there (second app after emacs).
> 
> What I have noticed is that xulrunner runs with a minimal menu (one
> list, with a quit item).  Normally that would not be a probelem,
> except that the way the mac and spaces works it makes it an involved
> process to get a new window.  Macs work on the one instance for
> everything, and switching brings up the current instance, which you
> then ask to make a new window, e.g. in emacs this would be C-x 5 2.
> 
> This is not possible with the way conkeror works on the mac, and I was
> wondering if anyone has found a solution to this.
> 
> Btw. just so you know, I have explicitly set spaces to NOT switch to
> the nearest workspace with an open window.  Another thing is that I
> tried making a launch script to have conkeror launch a new instance
> each time it is called, but I run into the "There is already an
> instance of xulrunner running, so we won't run another"  Which would
> be okay, if there was some way to pass to the application on the
> commandline to please open a new window.
> 
> Another P.S. At the moment what I do, is find the nearest window, do a
> C-x 5 f, and then take the new window to the new workspace, but you
> can imagine that this is far from ideal.


So you're saying there should be a "New Window" item in the menu?  Sounds
good to me.  I'll follow-up later after I push that.

-- 
John Foerch
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