[GRASS5] Re: launch html browser as a new process & free the command line
Huidae Cho
grass4u at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 23:38:36 EST 2005
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:21:40PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > In my case, it doesn't work because I'm using lynx as a manual
> > browser.
>
> .. right. ok then, I guess we need to go back to the way it was.
>
>
> > IMHO, I think it's better to leave it to users to fork
> > his/her browser. For example, the following script will free the
> > command line:
> >
> > my_browser $@ &
>
> should we expect new users to be educated in the ways of unix and
> backgrounding jobs?
No, we shouldn't. But we cannot expect users to use only graphical browsers.
>
>
> > Actually, firefox returns to the shell after launching.
>
> I'm using dillo for the task, which doesn't.
Right, that depends on a browser. What about having an option or env.
var? It's not easy though. :-)
Huidae Cho
>
>
>
>
> Hamish
More information about the grass-dev
mailing list