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

[Kyle Davenport]

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I agree - klipper always annoyed me too.   I'm a gnome/enlightenment guy,
but I checked out konsole.  Not impressed.  In gnome-terminal, mouse-over
underlines an url and <control><1st mouse button> opens it in the preferred
browser.  But I normally use Eterm.  Double-click on an url highlights it,
middle mouse in browser window opens it.  I also mapped the multimedia keys
on my keyboard - for example, I have a key labeled "Search".   Highlighting
any text on the desktop, and hitting that key gives me a google search on
that text.  The keys maps to this script:

SEARCHFOR=`xclip -o`
exec mozilla http://www.google.com/search?q=$SEARCHFOR

you'll probably have to install xclip.

Kyle