[gentoo-user] [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[gentoo-user] [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[Harry Putnam]

I once was a KDE desktop user... Lasted quite a while.  But over time
I went to Xfce4.... Been using it now a good while, but one applet
from KDE is sorely missed.  

There was some kind of panel applet, that was URL aware.  Any time you
highlighted text that looked like some kind of URL, a dialog window would
open and offer to open it with whatever application normally opened
such a URL.  

You might highlight a URL in a man page, text file, or even in the
scrollback buffer and the dialog would be right there offering to open
it. 

I wondered if there is anything like that for Xfce and if anyone knows
what that applet it?

I am awaiting an answer from Xfce user list on the same question.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[Keith Dart]

=== On Sat, 10/17, Harry Putnam wrote: ===
> I wondered if there is anything like that for Xfce and if anyone knows
> what that applet it?

===

I don't use that applet, and I think I would find that annoying.
Here's what I do.

I have a shell script:

=========
276 !$ cat ~/bin/urlhelper 
#!/bin/bash

SEL=$(xclip -o -selection primary)

if [ $? == 0 ] ; then
	xdg-open "$SEL"
fi
========


(be sure to emerge "xclip")

Bound to a hot-key using the xfce4 keyboard configuration to <Super>-g
(for GO). 

Then, whenever I know I have some url selected (I don't need an applet
to tell me) I just have to press the key combination and off it
goes. :-)




-- Keith Dart

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Keith Dart
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[hp_sebastian]

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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:32:38 -0500 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
wrote:
> I once was a KDE desktop user... Lasted quite a while.  But over time
> I went to Xfce4.... Been using it now a good while, but one applet
> from KDE is sorely missed.  
> 
> There was some kind of panel applet, that was URL aware.  Any time you
> highlighted text that looked like some kind of URL, a dialog window
> would open and offer to open it with whatever application normally
> opened such a URL.  
> 
> You might highlight a URL in a man page, text file, or even in the
> scrollback buffer and the dialog would be right there offering to open
> it. 
> 
> I wondered if there is anything like that for Xfce and if anyone knows
> what that applet it?
> 
> I am awaiting an answer from Xfce user list on the same question.
> 
> 
> 

xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-plugin

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[Harry Putnam]

Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> writes:

> Then, whenever I know I have some url selected (I don't need an applet
> to tell me) I just have to press the key combination and off it
> goes. :-)

Thanks for the input and example.
The applet I'm remembering was very unobtrusive... the one recommended
here by hp_sebastian.. also is very unobtrusive.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[Harry Putnam]

hp_sebastian <hp_sebastian@supersein.de> writes:

>
> xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman-plugin

Thank, that looks pretty flexible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT Xfce4/KDE] A URL aware applet

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:51:48 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:

> >  Then, whenever I know I have some url selected (I don't need an
> > applet to tell me) I just have to press the key combination and off it
> > goes. :-)  

> Thanks for the input and example.
> The applet I'm remembering was very unobtrusive...

That would be klipper. The automatic popup can be turned off if you want
to use it manually.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable

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