[Windmill-dev] Problem with starting the IDE

[Mikeal Rogers]

On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Shiqi Yang wrote:

> Hi, sorry if I send this to the wrong list, I learned about windmill
> from baypiggies meeting last Thursday and decided to have a test run.
> Well, the installation part was pretty smooth by following the steps
> listed in the online user manual except the final step: I'm unable to
> start the IDE
>
> by typing
>
> windmill ~/firefox20/firefox [url]

So here is the problem. The firefox option is just a command line  
windmill option that tells it to start firefox when it launches, it's  
not the location of the FF binary.

If you have firefox installed in a non-standard location you can just  
set that option in your local settings file. After you've run  
windmill once you should have a prefs.py file in ~/.windmill/prefs.py

In that file just set;

MOZILLA_BINARY = '/home/user/firefox20/firefox'

Windmill also needs to know the location of the default profile  
backup ( not the one you're using in the browser but a blank one that  
mozilla keeps around for creating new fresh profiles ). You can set  
that option in the same file;

MOZILLA_DEFAULT_PROFILE = '/home/user/firefox20/default/profile'

Hope this fixes all your issues, I'll write up all the different  
local preferences documentation when I get the chance.

-Mikeal