[Windmill-dev] Problem with starting the IDE

[Shiqi Yang]

Thanks guys!
It works now after I change the prefs.py.


On 10/15/07, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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-- 
Sherman Yang