tridactyl/tridactyl

Launch other sidebar (that isn't tridactyl) with browser.sidebarAction.open()

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hejops commented

I know that calling browser.sidebarAction.open/close/toggle() from within tridactyl performs the corresponding action on our sidebar, but can it be called to open/close/toggle some other sidebar that isn't ours? This was once mentioned in the context of treestyletab (#377 (comment) -- and yes, I'm thinking of doing this to open TST).

bovine3dom commented

As far as I know, it's impossible without changes in Firefox. You need a "user action" to open/close sidebars. Messages from other extensions can't count as user actions.

The whole concept of "user action" should be abolished but I suspect Mozilla would disagree with me :)

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bovine3dom commented

Your best bet is to use :bind [whatever] !s xdotool [TST keybind].

hejops commented

Yeah I didn't want to reach for xdotool unless there wasn't a more native way to do it. Good to know then, thanks for clearing it up!

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