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Netscape Behaviour

HTX communicates with Netscape by means of X resources, in essence looking for a window on your X display which was created by Netscape. If there is more than one of these, the first one will generally be used. If it cannot find such a window, HTX will start a new invocation of Netscape to create one.

One problem with this arrangement is that HTX may detect an invocation of Netscape running on a different machine but displaying on the same X display. In this case, attempts to communicate with it will succeed, but the browser may not necessarily be able to access the local files that HTX asks it to view (but see §gif). The best way around this problem is to ensure that the browser to be used by HTX is started first.



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HTX Hypertext Cross-Reference Utilities
Starlink User Note 188
R.F. Warren-Smith
6th January 1998
E-mail:rfws@star.rl.ac.uk