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Re: gnome URL handler (was Comments on the new gnome-terminal.)



* paul (paul@mackinney.net) [020707 09:56]:
> Vineet Kumar declaimed:
> > I've become accustomed to selecting the link (in a regular old xterm),
> > switching over to a mozilla window, (optional: hitting ctrl+t to get a
> > new tab,) and middle-clicking in the page to paste in the URL. Mozilla is
> > good enough to take that paste and go there, without fiddling around
> > with the selection of the address bar or whatnot. 
> Very nice, thanks! I'd been ommitting the ctrl-t step, so I had to click
> at the end of the current URL and backspace to the beginning, frequently
> highliting part of it by mistake and losing the buffer I wanted to
> paste... 

Well, the biggest point I was trying to make seems to have been missed:
paste in the page display area of Mozilla; you don't need to go anywhere
near the address bar. That way, it Just Works; you don't need to hit
enter or click Go or anything: just middle-click in the page and off it
goes.

Also, I'm using windowmaker, and my mozilla launcher accepts
middle-clicking on it to launch "/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin %s", so
even if there's not already a mozilla window open, I can still get to
that page with a single middle-click. (Curious: do gnome panel launchers
accept middle-click actions yet? I'll have to look into it...)

good times,
Vineet

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