browse-url and gnome 2.6

On a Gnome 2.6 system, xemacs should be opening URLs with the default Gnome browser, which is (now) accessed via the "gnome-open" program. The bad behavior I'm seeing is that I had browse-url-browser-function set to browse-url-gnome-moz, and my URLs were getting loaded in "mozilla" despite my default browser being set to "firefox". It seems to work ok if you use "htmlview" instead of "gnome-open", but I don't know how portable that is, or whether htmlview is considered to be deprecated... I've been told that "gnome-open" is the party line way to do this now. So: - currently, browse-url-gnome-moz uses the program "gnome-moz-remote" - "gnome-moz-remote" is how you open URLs in Gnome 1.4 - "gnome-url-show" is how you open URLs in Gnome 2.2 - "gnome-open" is how you open URLs in Gnome 2.4 and 2.6 - "gnome-open" does not take a "--newwin" argument (that behavior is a global Gnome preference, somewhere) - on my FC3 (Gnome 2.6) system, "gnome-moz-remote" launches "mozilla" instead of "firefox", even though firefox is set as my default browser in Gnome. "gnome-open" does the right thing. - (setq browse-url-gnome-moz-program "gnome-open") doesn't work because of the --newwin thing. (I guess setting browse-url-new-window-flag to nil might fix that.) Now here's the fucked up part: - (setq browse-url-generic-program "gnome-moz") doesn't work for mysterious reasons. Particularly, (start-process "blah" nil "gnome-open" "http://www.google.com/") does not cause a window to appear, but (start-process "blah" nil "/tmp/foo" "http://www.google.com/") does, where /tmp/foo is #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-open "$＠" sleep 1 so I don't know if this is an xemacs problem or a gnome-open problem, but somehow it's dying prematurely when launched in the way that start-process launches it. - (shell-command-on-region 1 1 "gnome-open http://www.google.com/") works fine, however. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz(a)jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/ jwz(a)dnalounge.com http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/