firefox tab support in Terminal-0.2.4

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Jun 24 17:07:46 CEST 2005


Matt Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:36 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>>Matt Thompson wrote:
>>
>>>Then, to use this, simply refer all calls that used to go to firefox to 
>>>moznewtab (like "moznewtab %s").  I'm on a WinXP box right now, so I 
>>>can't really recall, but I think you do this in Terminal itself.  For 
>>>Evolution or the like, you need to redefine the http/https handlers.
>>
>>Right, except that it's %u instead of %s.
> 
> 
> Huh, really?  I've always used %s (with Gnome handlers) and it's worked.
> Oh well.  I'll stick with it until it fails, then I'll try %u.

Yep, it's %u ('u' because it's replaced by an URL). We don't use %s, in 
order to be somewhat compatible with the desktop entry standard (as the 
primary list of helpers is loaded from .desktop files):

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html

> Matt

Benedikt



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