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

[Chris Cox]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:47:36PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>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.
>>>You might want to configure Klipper, the little clipboard tray icon.  
>>>It will give you the popups you want.  
>>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.  :-)
> 
> Well, I've played with Klipper quite a bit more, and just can't
> get it to work the way I want.  I can get it so that when I
> highlight a url in Konsole it pops up a menu that lets me send
> the url to Firefox, but then the popup menu keeps appearing repeatedly
> (and stealing the focus) until I turn "Actions Enabled" off.

Yep.. it's a pain.  Gtk vs. KDE-Qt

I haven't found a solution for this problem.

> 
> It's almost as if Konsole and Firefox start fighting over the clipboard,
> and Klipper keeps popping up the action menu in response to what it
> thinks are "new selections".

I think that's accurate.

> 
> So, Klipper doesn't seem to work well for me.  Anyone have any other
> ideas for a good terminal program to use besides Konsole?  (I know
> about xterm already, and it's probably not what I'd like to use.)

Uh... I guess I'm stuck wondering why.  Are you looking for some
kind of client built in clipboarding to fire off your firefox
action??  Just curious.