Automate webpage refresh
I am trying to write a script (python2.3) which will be used with linux konqueror to retrive 2 webpages alternatively every 2 minutes. My question is how can I send alternative args (the url) to the same invocation of konqueror which I started with def pipedreams(program, *args): pid = os.fork() if not pid: os.execvp(program, (program,) + args) return os.wait()[0] pipedreams(konqueror,url1) Obviously every time I call pipedreams I would open a new instance which is exactly what I do not want. My pseudocode : if timecounter == 60 : send url1 to konqueror to fetch display elif timecounter == 120: send url2 to konqueror to fetch % display timecounter = 0 Thanks for any hints D.B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automate webpage refresh
Hi! DarkBlue wrote: I am trying to write a script (python2.3) which will be used with linux konqueror to retrive 2 webpages alternatively every 2 minutes. My question is how can I send alternative args (the url) to the same invocation of konqueror which I started with This can be done using dcop, the KDE interprocess communication system. dcop can be used as a simple command line utility that sends messages to running applications. The easiest way to use it is to just play around with it on the commandline. For the konqueror usecase you would do something like: dcop konqueror-pid konqueror-mainwindow#1 openURL http://google.net; this command can easily be executed with os.system. Hope this gave some hints, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automate webpage refresh
DarkBlue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to write a script (python2.3) which will be used with linux konqueror to retrive 2 webpages alternatively every 2 minutes. My question is how can I send alternative args (the url) to the same invocation of konqueror which I started with def pipedreams(program, *args): pid = os.fork() if not pid: os.execvp(program, (program,) + args) return os.wait()[0] pipedreams(konqueror,url1) Obviously every time I call pipedreams I would open a new instance which is exactly what I do not want. No, that's not at all obvious. Some browsers will notice the previously running instance, and tell it to load the page - basically doing exactly what you want. Some take special flags to do that. The webbrowser module abstracts all these differences out for you. Since it has support for Konquerer, your code should look like this: # Untested - I don't have Konquer installed. import webbrowser webbrowser.open(url1) You may have to set the BROWSER environment variable to get it to find Konquerer. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Automate webpage refresh
Thanks for replies . dcop , hmmm I had not thought of this . D.B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
