Closed Bug 247217 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

App doesn't listen to mozilla-xremote-client anymore

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: sacha, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: version 0.7 (20040615)

Since upgrading from 0.6 to 0.7 the App seems to not listen to
mozilla-xremote-client anymore with the "-a thunderbird" switch set. It does
listen to mozilla-xremote-client with the "-a any" switch set, but this causes
problems when other Mozilla apps (like Firefox) are running:

/usr/local/thunderbird_0.7/mozilla-xremote-client -a thunderbird
mailto\(me@home.com\)
/usr/local/thunderbird_0.7/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to find a
running server.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. run 'mozilla-xremote-client -a thunderbird mailto\(eml@addr.com\)'

Actual Results:  
Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error

Expected Results:  
Open a new mail-compose window

This worked fine with Thunderbird 0.6
check these bugs for possible duplicates : bug 246166 and bug 246168
These other 2 mentioned bug-reports deal with Firefox 0.8+, my issue is with
thunderbird 0.7 (the new one) and the "mozilla-xremote-client" app that's
distributed with it. With Firefox I have no problems with the
"mozilla-x-remote-client" app.
Please note this bug is related to <b>Thunderbird</b> not <i>Firefox</i>.
Workaround:

Unaware that the Thunderbird app also supported the -remote switch I filed this
bugreport about Thunderbird and mozilla-xremote-client. As it seems when
Thunderbird is directly invoked with the -remote switch functionality is as
expected.

Please advice if we need this bug report or if it should be closed.
Seen in Aviary branch Thunderbird (nightly build 20040730) as well.  This causes
the new GNOME integration in bug 252056 to fail: the generated command line is

${thunderbird_home}/thunderbird "mailto:user@example.com"

which attempts to start a new instance of Thunderbird because the ping() done by
the thunderbird script fails.

The -remote workaround suggested in comment 4 doesn't work in this build either.
I'm using the latest 0.8 Linux builds, and this has been driving me crazy for
several weeks, because there's no way to get mailto: links to work in other
apps. (Why do I get the sense that nobody cares when Thunderbird is horribly
broken on Linux?)

Can someone confirm this, at least?
I can confirm this.
Testing with Thunderbird 20040926 (as packaged with Debian/Sarge)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
The problem is fixed in Thunderbird 0.9 available now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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