Re: Problem contacting Firefox from Emacs daemon started as systemd service

[Sébastien Gendre]

Thanks for your reply.

If I run the Firefox command from a shell in Emacs, I got the same
problem as when I try to open an url from Emacs.


Eli Zaretskii writes:

>> From: Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:14:59 +0100
>> 
>> I start an Emacs daemon at the start of my session with a systemd (user)
>> service. When I try to open an URL from Emacs, I got this error message
>> from Firefox:
>> 
>> Firefox is already running, but is not responding. The old Firefox
>> process must be closed to open a new window.
>> 
>> But if I call this command from a simple terminal:
>> firefox https://fsf.org
>> 
>> In Firefox, a new tab open on the FSF website, with no problem.
>> 
>> `browse-url-browser-function` value is `browse-url-default-browser`. That
>> mean Emacs call xdg-open, who call firefox command.
>> 
>> 
>> Have you an idea about this problem ? I can't found anything on the web.
>
> The 'firefox' command line asks the existing instance of Firefox to
> display the URL, whereas xdg-open tries to start a new instance.