I hate linux.

Yeah, I know I know. First mofo to argue with me about the above gets a
free ounce of lead, express delivery.


All of the followning statemens are true:

1. I am never not running seamonkey, it is always open at all times on
my left hand monitor, If at any point it was not on my left hand monitor
either I must have been going through a power failure or something had
broken it, because it is working at the moment I have decided not to use
emerge update for the next six months, two months in to that period at
this point.

2. Seamonkey is my default browser.

3. Seamonkey cannot be launched twice, ie it cannot be launched on my
right hand monitor because the monitors are using separte X servers and
it would need to be launched twice to come up on that monitor.

4. many applications that I run on my right hand monitor try to launch
my default browser which always reports an error message because it is
already running on a different monitor.


Therefore I need to obliterate the concept of a default web browser from
my machine.

All the stuff about default web browsers on goog is from different
distros. If I copy and paste the commands I get various obscure error
messages.

The only thing that seems to know how the default web browser was set is
a thing called "XDG" or "Xdg-config"

The manual page for xdg-config is criminally sparse. The author clearely couldn't conceive that anyone would ever want to remove any setting for
any reason, especially not the holy default web browser, or set it to a
blank or default state...

I found that xdg had set a bunch of environment variables, and utilizes
data dilectories in every corner of my system. The hundreds of
individual files it uses don't have anything so obvious as

 <DEFAULT APPS>
<Web Browser>seamonkey.desktop </web browser>
</default apps>

Dear god! The user might try to manage his settings without the obscure UNDOCUMENTED, crappy application we penguinoids think he should use it. Instead, we need to come up with the most obscure, convoluted,
spaghetti-ized, obfuscated, arcane, and archaic design we can think of
to make sure the user never EVER gets control of his own system.

It feels like a metastatized cancer. It looks like it's intertwined with
as much of my system as possible. My home directory is incohprehensibly
stale, it has garbage that was left there fifteen years ago.

It looks like most of it is hiding among my steam games in
.local/share/  Most of the stuff in there is garbage from 2014, some
active files tho.

Only a penguin could invent a system this difficult for the user to
inspect and control.

Even after deleting the files xdg-settings still cheerfully reports my
default web browser is seamonkey,

NO YOU MTOHERFUCKER , NO DEFAULT, NO WEB , NO MOTHERFUCKING BROWSER, AND
NO SEAMONKEY!!! NONE OF IT YOU MOTHERFUCKKING MOTHERFUCKER AND BURN IN
HELL TO EVERYONE RESPONSIBLE FOR XDG!!

--
Beware of Zombies. =O
#EggCrisis #BlackWinter
White is the new Kulak.
Powers are not rights.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

On Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:42:56 BST Alan Grimes wrote:
[snip ...]

All of the followning statemens are true:

1. I am never not running seamonkey, it is always open at all times on
my left hand monitor, If at any point it was not on my left hand monitor either I must have been going through a power failure or something had
broken it, because it is working at the moment I have decided not to use emerge update for the next six months, two months in to that period at
this point.

2. Seamonkey is my default browser.

3. Seamonkey cannot be launched twice, ie it cannot be launched on my
right hand monitor because the monitors are using separte X servers and
it would need to be launched twice to come up on that monitor.

Does a new web browser instance/window/tab have to come up in your RH monitor?

4. many applications that I run on my right hand monitor try to launch
my default browser which always reports an error message because it is already running on a different monitor.

Therefore I need to obliterate the concept of a default web browser from
my machine.

I can think of a couple of options here instead of unsetting a default
browser, but I don't know how you may have configured your desktop environment:

1. You could set up a different default web browser. Take a look at 'man xdg-settings' or for a primer check https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html. You'll still run seamonkey as you do anyway, all you'll use the default browser is for other applications to launch ad-hoc.

2. You could create a customized .desktop file for your seamonkey browser in your ~/.local/share/applications/ by copying the relevant .desktop file from / usr/share/applications/ and changing any sections in it, like [Desktop Action new-window], or [Desktop Action new-tab]. This will open a new window or tab in the same instance of the already running seamonkey.

Others may know of different ways to achieve the same.


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEXqhvaVh2ERicA8Ceseqq9sKVZxkFAmKlq6cACgkQseqq9sKV Zxl6vxAAx0ez4+DaJLcE3coYddcyokA6mL/ICOuszocRdX6FQ38nRf5168mz2prl Vm9wfpqaaKKqM/krbMT2304uAaVY34DTDHbaWSPH5abm1yKqiT7d3cfqGQPgBrUT 7wD/k/0jUVGyNCHD+Bs3jgB7uzcWl98sXj4SkPY74PyqpKC4OQc+1M3hphzG5fy/ rf0M8wRJrDZMiU0Slxic3FojH95IX27urc1ahBJOmfZeZ4P9Dni3kL5Z6eaUEW6Q 0xr7JOdjWtIAQysVRDFlzH4AwD12EAdpav1V35KgRUKObhw+gYf0c8ykrZQAwh5Z H4Dl8tee4dt4M+mS1Gd7TmuRBRbasxXJGcdbA1rbwrYHAjxwpPg31N1r0v70PeS1 KAmamF2CFAy+rqdO+0f1b4GTnKuN07okkuNJOQ0guk8fz946FkhjnvS88xMIgaGj MpTYk6/tKCWfA4bqgwW6PPAA/1o9yOjzqA4vg9JTD5sUlIHDkWEb1Za6WcnkjQnV 6g/olg115khv9juckM7bVAS3bAXqy7+3E2lDGzgnVzbMpFXE4wUxrNqzq/GqLIp5 owhNiKicZQiJbGbBcgHROQ1BQeupSwWhJecYt+haFaCjsh00efJy1xOLmUQYo6NG 1Kboq9sshMxHFZ+eHcsdgr4BQQnyDc4NVWkcPK310CddRwpyDeQ=
=spqn
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:42:56 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:

All of the followning statemens are true:

1. I am never not running seamonkey, it is always open at all times on
my left hand monitor, If at any point it was not on my left hand monitor either I must have been going through a power failure or something had
broken it, because it is working at the moment I have decided not to use emerge update for the next six months, two months in to that period at
this point.

2. Seamonkey is my default browser.

3. Seamonkey cannot be launched twice, ie it cannot be launched on my
right hand monitor because the monitors are using separte X servers and
it would need to be launched twice to come up on that monitor.

The last statement is not quite true. It cannot be launched twice with
the same profile. This was the first hit when googling "seamonkey launch
two instances"

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_your_Mozilla_application_with_another_profile

Is there a particular reason for running two X servers rather than one
desktop on two screens? The latter completely avoids the problem you are having.


--
Neil Bothwick

If God can't help you, how about Mr. Coffee?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAmKlza0ACgkQ92eFu0QS MJh2PQ/+K5Wu+J4katLZ0YpvmHJxDIcvYymLGdPcRKuMJCSJtSTIUOgMob7Z0kJy L52/uIvZzty20aOg0xVNTdWp8QQnbY7GnpimIoTXw6R2pEFRI8DVf09wWvcbPZ8n bXOzC2+3pmgkzXM3VDGCDIjNP51+ajYllU+jsrOWgNoCmHxZfoxnLi1WkcK+zUm0 OAdHIx1ycblolwsFO6rp0gICgTMzQrVb+0dolyLrgeWKwB6gmLagE4GoOmu/aDsP I31+fBWp0LO4XrmmwWorIfEY2L1TQLZzBqTSt8QWj97b2x1XuhyUYrhtHN45TBwx AsoQZ3yvUgSf2PPJ+HMTlXnFrMrug/YjlIdNYh6DZF3GEaIxlZq7wNJNXuvsFXXa HuiPTQx1YlofID0dkeVSin0EUjpowaldkFgcggnSEGIkGF9AXr3zq4NlaHGVXR2t H8Le1uAhGfgNTRQTGAc+ZQToFup5HsW79nrWLODR6/VLCtTC+qHCwEF6Ockw4AMo PzDIGKxk/36xEwoCuTKqZmUEbifGxzu3dcbU9ybVSxVmAbqEEmrLS6qyAowLpXV8 LFZVs45ZmPybQfV+oE70+UAy5UOD0mlCToW3KQUYRvg2M8O2nL0608818sGP6PEv LGnIw6BvfYCsQmMTLrnENf5sw8jPuZuUv7rMMCEiUbCgZX8XeO0=
=QKta
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)