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

Terry trryhend at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 20:09:29 CST 2006


On 1/14/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> I've just recently switched my desktop system to be running Linux
> full-time (yay!), but there's a feature from my previous environment
> that I find that I really miss.
>
> In my previous environment, my ssh terminal would automatically detect
> any 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, but
> I haven't been able to find or make a good mouse shortcut that
> will automatically send the url to firefox.

If you have a 3 button mouse or scroll wheel, you can probably just
use middle mouse button to dump in into wherever you want.  If you
only have a 2 button mouse, (and you have 3 button emulation enabled)
press both buttons at once.

>
> Gnome-terminal comes close (right clicking on a url pulls up
> a menu from which I can send the url to firefox) and I can use it,
> but I wanted to see if anyone had other suggestions to get this
> to work in Konsole, or other terminal programs I should look at.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pm
>
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