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I work in multiple client frames on several virtual desktops. My main Opera instance is running in one frame, but often I do have URLs in other frames that I want to see in Opera, as for exmaple in the frame irssi is running in, or in any other terminal I might be reading some documentation in. It is tedious to switch back and forth the various virtual desktops to reach the main Opera instance and Paste and go to the new URL. I have rather Opera coming to me - but starting Opera each time I quickly just want to look at something is no fun… (Opera's startup time isn't know to be the fastest, if you have mail and feeds in your Opera as well)

So I always only deal with opera -newwindow and have that opening a new window of the currently running instance on my virtual desktop: applications that need a browser to view documentation or help get that command, irssi has an alias that allows me to open it directly from within the irssi session, bash has an appropriate alias…

My emacs keyboard bindings for Opera also have the Ctrl-x k binding to easily close the current window.

…et voilà, I have an Opera window readily available wherever I am working, without having to give up my huge sessions, and without having to wait for Opera to start up.


Note: make sure not to close a window with several tabs in it if you want to have them part of your session: currently there is unfortunately no way of restoring an accidentally closed window (accidentally closed tabs are easily re-opened), but, pssst, this is fixed in Kestrel.

Yet another note: Emacs will have multi-tty support in the next-but-one version (23). The multi-tty branch has just been merged to the Savannah CVS repository.