[spambayes-dev] Setting up a new account

[Sjoerd Mullender]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Sjoerd> The problem is that it does indeed start a browser and waits for
>     Sjoerd> the command to finish before starting to serve webpages.  This
>     Sjoerd> of course does not work.  It should not wait.  In fact, I'm not
>     Sjoerd> convinced that it should start a browser in the first place.
> 
> All it does is call webbrowser.open(...), (or open_new) right?  It's a bug
> in the webbrowser module or its setup if it doesn't return after launching
> the page.  I just tried
> 
>     webbrowser.open("http://www.mojam.com/")
> 
> with BROWSER=open in my environment.  It returned immediately, then Safari
> popped up with the page.  Do you have the BROWSER environment variable set?
> What does webbrowser.get() return for you?

This was on RedHat with the Gnome desktop.  It started galeon, and since 
I didn't have a galeon running at the time, the one just invoked didn't 
return.  Normally  if you have a galeon browser running, a new one will 
just signal the old one and exit.