Hello.. I am trying to make my firefox work with my Thunderbird but I dont understand one thing when you say.... Change the paths to point to this executable shell script: How do you do this ... is this a file or do you do it in konsole and what is the path that you should change it too .. thanks for your help .. and please forgive that i am a newbie
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:03:47 -0400, Micheal Bonner <biggdaddycool@peoplepc.com> wrote:
Hello.. I am trying to make my firefox work with my Thunderbird but I dont understand one thing when you say.... Change the paths to point to this executable shell script:
How do you do this ... is this a file or do you do it in konsole and what is the path that you should change it too ..
Create the script I mentioned here: http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/pipermail/wlug/2004-October/004222.html as a new file (call it launch-firefox). I would recommend making a 'bin' directory under your home directory (mkdir ~/bin), create the script in that dir using an editor like kate or something easy, then add execute permissions (chmod 755 ~/bin/launch-firefox). Make sure you change the path *inside* the script (export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/path/to/firefox/dir) to point to the dir that you have firefox installed in. I know this might sound complicated and it shouldn't need to be this way but firefox is still prerelease software and on Linux there's less people trying to make things easier. The typical Linux user does it their own way anyway. Keep asking questions...the only way to learn, BR
From: Micheal Bonner <BiggDaddyCool@peoplepc.com>
Hello.. I am trying to make my firefox work with my Thunderbird
I don't use Thunderbird, but I don't think your question depends on that.
but I dont understand one thing when you say.... Change the paths to point to this executable shell script:
How do you do this ...
To save you from typing the complete path to an executable command, and to save the shell from searching your whole disk, bash (the shell) keeps a list of directories in which it searches for executable files. It keeps this as a colon separated list in the variable $PATH. You can see what it is by typing echo $PATH to a shell prompt. You usually set this variable by including, in the file .bash_profile in your home directory, the following lines PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH This adds the ~/bin directory in your home directory to whatever was in the path before. The .bash_profile is executed whenever you log in. Then it will find executable files in that directory. Next I have the file 'firebird' in that ~/bin directory. $ ls -l firebird -rwxr--r-- 1 kwright kwright 70 Oct 29 2003 firebird Note the "x" among the permissions. This means I am allowed to execute the file. You can add the "x" by chmod u+x firebird while in the ~/bin directory. Finally, the contents of the file are $ cat firebird #!/bin/bash /home/kwright/build/Firebird-0.7.0/MozillaFirebird $1 & Of course you change /home/kwright/build to wherever you put the Firebird directory (and use your no-doubt newer version number, I'll get to it one day)
is this a file or do you do it in konsole and what is the path that you should change it too ..
Oh, oh! Is 'konsole' a KDE program? I don't use KDE either, I have given you directions for getting the command 'firebird' to work at a shell prompt. In Gnome the next refinement is to right click in the control panel, choose: Add to Panel >>> Launcher, and type the shell command i.e. 'firebird' into the form next to "command". That adds an icon to the control panel that types the command for you. I assume KDE does something similar.
thanks for your help .. and please forgive that i am a newbie
I have no problem with someone asking questions, but that word "newbie" gets on my nerves sometimes. Why can't we all be something in the dictionary---like beginners or learners. -- Keith
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