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What Display setting is neded to fun firefox from a shell

bogan
bogan
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To check if my WiFi is working from a terminal I want to run Firefox. I t demands that a display be specified. 

I tried 'firefox 1280x1024', but that is not recognized as a "Display"

How do I specify one? Running firefox v3.6.24 with Linux Ubuntu 10.10 on 32 Bit, and Windows 7. with firefox 8-0 on the later.

To check if my WiFi is working from a terminal I want to run Firefox. I t demands that a display be specified. I tried 'firefox 1280x1024', but that is not recognized as a "Display" How do I specify one? Running firefox v3.6.24 with Linux Ubuntu 10.10 on 32 Bit, and Windows 7. with firefox 8-0 on the later.

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David McRitchie
David McRitchie
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see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

firefox.exe -width 1280 -height 1024