Blame it on the Mozilla group.
Their startup scripts assume that if you start it when one instance
already exists, that you must want to invoke a new session (profile),
rather than manipulate the current running session, as you, and most
other people, would want.
Since Mozilla hasn't done it right, we have to. Thus the need to have
an oo-thunderbird wrapper. It can be done simple enough.
#!/bin/sh
thunderbird=/path/to/thunderbird
${thunderbird} -remote 'ping()'
if [ ${?} -eq 0 ]; then
${thunderbird}-remote "xfeDoCommand(composeMessage, ${2})"
else
${thunderbird} [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fi
Brian Carey wrote:
Where should I put the script, and what do I call it? This is not a
general problem on my system, as only OpenOffice fails to notice when
tbird is already running.
OO works correctly with kmail and mozilla. Tbird works correctly from
eg. the console.
Is the file-name in your example significant?
Thanks,
Brian
Matthew Stier wrote:
You need to create a, or modify your, Thunderbird startup script to
change:
<thunderbird> -compose attachment=file:///var/tmp/svga3.tmp/noname2.odt
into
<thunderbird> -remote
'xfeDoCommand(composeMessage,attachment=file:///var/tmp/svga3.tmp/noname2.odt)'
if an already running version of Thunderbird exists.
Brian Carey wrote:
2.0 on slackware (rpm2tgz worked quite nicely ;)
I have selected thunderbird as my email client. When I try to send a
mail via File->Send->email attachment everything works fine if tbird
is not already running. If it is running I get the "select a
different profile" dialog from thunderbird, which of course I don't
want to do.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Brian
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Subject:
sending email attachment from writer tries to open new instance of
thunderbird
From:
Brian Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:49:43 -0600
To:
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To:
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2.0 on slackware (rpm2tgz worked quite nicely ;)
I have selected thunderbird as my email client. When I try to send a
mail via File->Send->email attachment everything works fine if tbird
is not already running. If it is running I get the "select a
different profile" dialog from thunderbird, which of course I don't
want to do.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Brian
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