ipython notebook in a new broswer window (and not a new tab in an existing window)

Question

so I've been talked into ipython notebook. I even set a shortcut (should be added to the beginners guides: alias ipn='ipython notebook --pylab inline &') but it opens a new tab in an open browsing session. I'd like it to start the ipython in a NEW window. How do I do that?

Thanks guys!

Answer 1

alias ipn='ipython notebook --pylab inline

But the dev team recommend not to start with --pylab it leads to bugs for newcommers that do not know what pylab really does :-(. It is better to use %matplotlib inline at beginning of notebooks ! (explicit is better than implicit)

As for opening in a new window, IPython rely on webbrowser.open in notebookapp.py line 711 on master. And the ability to choose new tab or new window is not configurable. (You can try to open an issue or a Pull request on github, but it might fall in the "to little use case to make it configurable")

Cannot you just 'detach' the current tab ?