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Re: painful IDL 7 online help [message #60840 is a reply to message #60839]

Fri, 20 June 2008 05:38

Peter Clinch
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> I find that accessing the online help interface ( ? command) has become
> extremely painful.
>
> My environment is Linux Suse 9.2, and I use fvwm as window manager (with
> two desktops with four workspaces each). Incidentally I have configured
> the window manager so that my web browser (firefox) always opens in a
> dedicated workspace.
>
> And of course I usually run idl in another (any other) workspace.
>
> In the past when I typed ? command in my idl session (runtime "idl"
> command, no development environment !) it opened an online help window
> in the same workspace. Now the help window is opened in the firefox
> workspace. This is painful enough.

FWIW, in SuSE 10.2 using Gnome it's a non-issue: help opens in the
workspace I'm using for IDL, whichever one that is.

> What is more painful is that each time I click on a link in the help
> pages, they open a new window each time.

And that doesn't happen to me either, links not opening new windows. So
i's not a general linux or IDL 7 problem, probably something more
explicit in your particular setup.

Pete.
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