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Browser does not start when clicking on a URL in terminal window

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Browser does not start when clicking on a URL link in terminal window.

In terminal windows URLs are underlined and have special "finger" cursor when pointing over them, however when clicking, nothing happens.

Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10

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kreggz (jasonkregting) said : 		#1

Hello,

To access a link:

To access a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is displayed in a terminal, perform the following steps:

       1. Move the mouse over the URL until the URL is underlined.

       2. Right-click on the URL to open a popup menu.

       3. Choose Open Link to start a link application and display the file located at the URL.

I can confirm that in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS this function works. Can you try the following steps to see if this helps?

Regards,

kreggz

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kreggz (jasonkregting) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#3

I think it looks like a bug. Terminal displays URLs in a specific way, and it looks like you can click on them. The expected behavior is: For URL, open them in the default web browser, for mailto links, open a new email in the default email program. And it is not what happens. So what?

* The expected behavior should not be expected (highly debatable)
* gnome-terminal does not implement this default behavior on purpose (why?) Bug -> Won't fix.
* gnome-terminal should implement this behavior. Bug.

In any case, the original message was not a question IMO.

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kreggz (jasonkregting) said : 		#4

I can understand what you are saying, it was only recently that I worked this out myself. It is kind of confusing.

Also, I believe this is by design or "working as intended" because I copied an pasted that from the Gnome terminal manual.

3.4. Working with the Contents of Terminal Windows

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#5

Do you think we can turn this question back into a bug? It can be tagged "Wishlist" or something like that, but it should be great to have other opinions, in particular from developers. Another possibility would be to create a "Brainstorm" idea.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

I usually have this as default...
When i use a terminal with gnome (gnome-terminal) i can right click with mouse on a link and i get a contextual menu to open the link...

Open a termina and type:

www.google.com

and right click on it with mouse...

Hope this helps

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