Application: gvSIG desktop

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# ShellScript 

# - to detect a desktop and their native

#   File/WebBrowser such as Konqueror (KDE) or Nautilus/Epiphany (Gnome)

# Or 

# - to detect a browser from the mozilla family

# The first prefered one will open the given $1 document

# which should be a web url (http://host.domain.com/path/index.html) or a 

# local file like file:///local/folder/document.html

# Note: Tested on SuSE, Fedora an Mandriva Linux and Solaris 9 with kde, gnome or a mozilla installed

#

# This is licensed as part of

# IzPack - Copyright 2001-2005 Julien Ponge, All Rights Reserved.

# 

# http://izpack.org/

# http://izpack.codehaus.org/

# 

# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

# You may obtain a copy of the License at

# 

#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

#     

# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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#

# Usage:

#

#  ./start.sh http://izpack.org/

#

# author marc.eppelmann@gmx.de

# $Id: start.sh 2116 2008-04-19 13:00:24Z jponge $

#

function detectDesktop() {

  if [[ "$DISPLAY" = "" ]]; then

    return 1

  fi

  local LC_ALL=C

  local clients

  if ! clients=`xlsclients`; then

    # TODO: should we fall back to using ps?

    return 1

  fi

  if echo "$clients" | grep -qE '(gnome-panel|nautilus|metacity)'; then

    echo gnome

  elif echo "$clients" | grep -qE '(kicker|slicker|karamba|kwin)'; then

    echo kde

  else

    echo other

  fi

  return 1

}

function lookForRunningGecko(){

  if command -v firefox &>/dev/null; then

    tempfile=`mktemp`

    firefox -remote "ping()" 2> $tempfile

  	if [ -s $tempfile ]; then

      rm $tempfile

      echo "none" # is not running :-)

      return 1

  	else

  	  rm $tempfile      

  	  echo firefox # is running :-)

      return 0

  	fi    

  fi    # firefox "$1"

  if command -v mozilla &>/dev/null; then

    #if mozilla -remote "ping()" 

    if command mozilla -remote "ping()" &>/dev/null; then

      echo mozilla # is running :-)

      return 0

    fi

  fi

  echo "none"

  return 1

}

desktop=`detectDesktop` 

gecko=`lookForRunningGecko`

echo "found Desktop: $desktop"

echo "found Gecko:   $gecko"

if [[ "$gecko" = "none" ]]; then # try open a new instance if found:

  if command -v firefox &>/dev/null; then

    firefox "$1" &

  elif command -v mozilla &>/dev/null; then   

    mozilla "$1" &

  elif [[ "$desktop" = "gnome" ]] && command -v gnome-open &>/dev/null; then

    gnome-open "$1" &

  elif [[ "$desktop" = "kde" ]]; then

    kfmclient exec "$1" &

  else

    exit 1

  fi

else 

  echo "Launching: $gecko"

  $gecko -remote "openurl($1)" &

fi