[NTLUG:Discuss] Sending url in terminal window to firefox

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:58:33PM -0500, Sally Welch wrote:
> >In my previous environment, my ssh terminal would automatically >detectany url-looking items in the window, and clicking on the url >would automatically open it in a new browser window.
> >
> >I haven't found a convenient way to do the same in KDE/Konsole.A >double-click in the Konsole window will highlight a url, butI haven't >been able to find or make a good mouse shortcut that will >automatically send the url to firefox.
> 
> You might want to configure Klipper, the little clipboard tray icon.  
> It will give you the popups you want.  

Well, I looked at Klipper, but it doesn't seem to work consistently,
or at least I can't figure out the inconsistency.

If I have a url in my terminal window and double-click it, Konsole
nicely highlights the url, which is what I would expect.  But I can't 
seem to reliably get the action popup to appear -- sometimes it 
appears after the double-click, but many times it doesn't.  So,
I'm left clicking the url over and over hoping to get the action
popup to appear (and wondering why/when it's choosing to popup).

Although now that I'm playing with it a little bit, it seems as
though it won't bring up the action menu if the url being clicked
already exists at least twice in Klipper.... hmmmm.  Well, that doesn't
occur often (except, apparently, when I was trying to figure out how
Klipper worked) so that might not be a problem.  Has anyone else
noticed this before?

At any rate, thanks for prodding me to look a little further into
Klipper; apparently I just need to experiment with it a little more.
Now if I can just get the action menu to be less cluttered when I
click.  :-)

Pm
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