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

[Terry]

On 1/24/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> 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.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pm


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