Re: odd question re man pages
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:59, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Friday, January 7, 2022 5:21:03 AM EST David wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
> > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> > > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but
> > > clicking
> > > the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default
> > > browser to that page? If so, where should I check for the broken
> > > linkage?
> > Hi. Well, you need to install whatever the terminal program calls to
> > implement this functionality (plus a default browser obviously).
> > Possibly 'xdg-open' utility in the 'xdg-utils' package. Works here.
> > It might need configuration, I can't remember. Try it and see.
> That is installed, but I can't find a configurator for it. And I am a heavy
> user of mc but the file menu popup steals the F10 key, also a pita. But
> there is not an F10 checked in the settings for xfce or konsole that I can
> find.
Did you test it? For example:
$ xdg-open http://google.com
If that works, then look for a way to configure your terminal emulator
to use it. What terminal emulator are you using? konsole?
Search for example:
"konsole xdg-open how" finds lots of info.
I can't help with konsole, I don't use it.
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