Lotus Notes 6.5.1 Forum

I was able to get Notes 6.5.1 installed with CX Office 2.1.0 by following the tips mentioned in the "Tips & Tricks" section.

The only problem is with the browser as it doesn't seem to listen to the settings in cxoffice setup.

Other than that, everything works great!

Lotus Notes has it's own settings/rules for using/launching web-browers.
(File->Mobile->Edit Current Location->Internet Browser) Unfortunately those rules do
not work with CrossOver Office. One idea is a launcher program called browser.exe
that would reside in the fake Windows directory that would then abide by the cxoffice
web-browser settings. Then you'd just set the web-browser of choice in Notes to
"Other->C:\Windows\browser.exe" and it would then launch the native (or IE if you're into
that) Linux web-browser.

I would prefer to have it launch Firefox, or the like, on the linux side.

Does this browser.exe launcher exist? Or were you just suggesting something that
may work, if someone wants to do it?

Thanks for your response!

Just a suggestion for someone with more programing skills than me...
(Although this little piece of code does exist at the company I work for,
but it's not publicly available. ☹️)

That's what I was afraid of... :(

I too lack the programming skills to create such a launcher.

I do have a bored friend that is a programmer that may be able to help me, though... I
would imagine this application wouldn't have to be too complicated. Do you know
exactly what this launcher will do, and how it will do it? Just so I can tell my friend
what to make for me.

From what I've read the application is fairly straight forward, and not very complicated.
Here is a high level description of what to do.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=createprocess+wine&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=7gpoj3%2468l%40faui11.informatik.uni-erlangen.de&rnum=7

And some more info...

http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-users/2001/07/0106.html

Ok, so I've talked to my programmer friend, and he agrees that it would be a very easy
project. He wants to know what programming language these people are refering to,
and where these supposed functions exist.

Do you have any clues about that?

C and a mix of POSIX/Win32.

Actually, that's not the way this feature should be implemented. There is already a
winebrowser program actually, but it doesn't work in the way people would expect
(it just has a list of program names it tries to invoke in turn).

CrossOver also has such a program, launchurl, which you can symlink from
c:\windows for now. However, this program also doesn't do what people
expect, which is to actually get their preferred browser from the desktop environment.

We'll get to this eventually.