On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:20:04PM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote: > Dear Conkerors: > > I am running an antique Conkeror (from 2008) under Windows XP. It > interfaces satisfactorily with my Emacs 22.3.1 running with Cygwin. > > With the help of a friend, I have been trying to upgrade it. He > succeeded in downloading Conkeror 0.9.3 and Xulrunner 1.9 and getting > them to run. However:
XULRunner 1.9 is very old. I recommend using a newer version. > 1. He did not succeed in getting Emacs to communicate with it. My > present code for that purpose, in my ~/.emacs, is > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > (setq > browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic > browse-url-generic-program "c:/conkeror/conkeror.exe") > > (setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic > browse-url-generic-program "c:/conkeror/conkeror.exe" > browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Adding ".lnk" to the filename does not do the job, and neither > does any of several strenuous workarounds that my friend tried. > Either nothing happens, or permission is refused. Changing the > permission in Cygwin makes the new Conkeror accessible from the > Cygwin shell and from Windows, but not from Emacs. How is Cygwin involved with Conkeror? Conkeror is Windows compatible. The normal way to launch Conkeror is to do: /path/to/xulrunner /path/to/conkeror/application.ini You could put this in a batch file or a shortcut file. > > 2. The scroll wheel on my trackball does not work. It works > everywhere else, including the old Conkeror. > Would have to ask other Windows users about this. Haven't had this sort of problem myself. Cheers. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
