Running an URL from Alt+F2

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 30/03/2010 04:12, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> With KDE, I could type an URL into the command runner and it would open my 
> default browser.  With Xfce at present, I need to preface that with the 
> browser command, "firefox."
> 
> Is there a way of associating URLs with a browser?  Associating an application 
> with a file in Thunar is standard, but the command line is different, regardless 
> of the desktop.  I think that I read somewhere about a launcher specifically 
> for URLs?

One way to do that would be to run “unknown” commands prefixed with
exo-open in xfrun (or directly use the exo open in xfrun so any uri
would work)

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis