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ronandi

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Registered: 2008-04-26

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[SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

Can you enable links in urxvt so that when you click them, they open in firefox?

I'm running irssi in urxvt and would prefer this over using the openurl script (which isnt working too well)

Last edited by ronandi (2008-04-28 05:31:44)

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thayer

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

Can you enable links in urxvt so that when you click them, they open in firefox?

I'm running irssi in urxvt and would prefer this over using the openurl script (which isnt working too well)

Add the following to ~/.Xdefaults:

urxvt*perl-lib:            /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/
urxvt*perl-ext-common:        default,matcher
urxvt*urlLauncher:        /usr/bin/firefox
urxvt*matcher.button:        1
urxvt*matcher.pattern.1:   \\bwww\\.[\\w-]+\\.[\\w./?&@#-]*[\\w/-]

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ronandi

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Re: [SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

Thanks a lot! Works perfectly.

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phrakture

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Re: [SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

For the record, your pattern.1 isn't needed. The default pattern is much more thorough.

Also, I think the perl-lib setting may default to the path you have there

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thayer

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

For the record, your pattern.1 isn't needed. The default pattern is much more thorough.

Also, I think the perl-lib setting may default to the path you have there

Ah ha! Thanks for the tip...at some point last year I was looking for the same solution and simply copied it from somewhere else.

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

For the record, your pattern.1 isn't needed. The default pattern is much more thorough.

Also, I think the perl-lib setting may default to the path you have there

Ah ha! Thanks for the tip...at some point last year I was looking for the same solution and simply copied it from somewhere else.

you should have copied it from code.phraktured.net 

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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Urxvt- Enabling Links?

Ah, it doesn't actually work.

I have the following chunk o' code in my .Xdefaults:

urxvt*perl-ext-common: default,matcher
urxvt*urlLauncher: /usr/bin/firefox3
urxvt*matcher.Button: 1

But nothing happens. A URL gets nicely underlined and such, but when I click it nothing happens...

EDIT: Yeah, so the problem was perl-ext-common: It had to be perl-ext. Now everything is nice.

One thing I still don't get is why 'urxvt.matcher.Button' doesn't work for me. No matter what I write (0,1,2) - I can only open a URL with middle click. Neither left (which is supposed to be one 1) nor right (I guess on 3) work. It always, no matter what I have written there, defaults to the middle mouse button.

Ideas?

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-06-20 13:30:41)