banjo Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 I am trying to make the multimedia keys on my new keyboard work with Firefox. I have xbindkeys running, which allows me to bind a function key to a command. I have this working with aumix to control the sound volume using commands like: /usr/bin/aumix -w +10 &/usr/bin/aumix -w -10 & Is there some way that I can control a running Firefox program with command line commands to do things like refresh a page, go to the home page, etc? I need to bind a keysym to a command in order to make this work. I would also like to hook up the email keys on the keyboard so that I can fire up Kmail and control it from the keyboard. Has anybody done anything like this? I am running Mandy 9.1. Thanks, Banjo (_)=='=~ [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 When using mozilla I can launch with a specific url as follows: mozilla "www.mozilla.org" Does this help? I am attaching an html file I found somewhere on the web which list command line options. firefox_commandline.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Thanks for the pointer. That is exactly the sort of thing that I am looking for. So far I have not found the right remote commands to do things like reload a page or go to the home page. But it is a good place to start looking. Banjo (_)=='=! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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