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    From Chris Green@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 4 16:10:01 2024
    When I click on a web link in a terminal window I want the link to
    open in my existing browser window (which is usually on a different
    workspace).

    In my new[ish] Debian 12 installation a new browser window pops up in
    the current workspace which I find very annoying.

    It used to work the way I want on my old xubuntu installation so I'm
    sure it must be configurable somewhere.

    I'm running xfce4 and my default browser is vivaldi.

    Can anyone point me at where this might be configured?

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    Chris Green

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  • From The Wanderer@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Mon Nov 4 16:30:02 2024
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    On 2024-11-04 at 10:03, Chris Green wrote:

    When I click on a web link in a terminal window I want the link to
    open in my existing browser window (which is usually on a different workspace).

    In my new[ish] Debian 12 installation a new browser window pops up
    in the current workspace which I find very annoying.

    It used to work the way I want on my old xubuntu installation so I'm
    sure it must be configurable somewhere.

    I'm running xfce4 and my default browser is vivaldi.

    Can anyone point me at where this might be configured?

    Since "click on a Web link in a terminal window" is a foreign concept to
    me (in the terminal I use, links are plain text like any other text,
    they aren't clickable), I infer that you must be using a different
    terminal emulator, one which provides a different and arguably richer
    feature set.

    If I were in your position, the first two places I'd look would be at
    the default-browser setting (in particular, the exact method and
    arguments with which that browser is launched, since there may be
    command-line arguments which could affect this) and the
    terminal-emulator configuration.

    What terminal emulator are you using?

    --
    The Wanderer

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
    persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
    progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw


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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to The Wanderer on Mon Nov 4 16:40:01 2024
    On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 10:16:39AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
    On 2024-11-04 at 10:03, Chris Green wrote:

    When I click on a web link in a terminal window I want the link to
    open in my existing browser window (which is usually on a different workspace).

    In my new[ish] Debian 12 installation a new browser window pops up
    in the current workspace which I find very annoying.

    It used to work the way I want on my old xubuntu installation so I'm
    sure it must be configurable somewhere.

    I'm running xfce4 and my default browser is vivaldi.

    Can anyone point me at where this might be configured?

    Since "click on a Web link in a terminal window" is a foreign concept to
    me (in the terminal I use, links are plain text like any other text,
    they aren't clickable), I infer that you must be using a different
    terminal emulator, one which provides a different and arguably richer
    feature set.

    If I were in your position, the first two places I'd look would be at
    the default-browser setting (in particular, the exact method and
    arguments with which that browser is launched, since there may be command-line arguments which could affect this) and the
    terminal-emulator configuration.

    What terminal emulator are you using?

    The default in xfcei, xfce4-terminal.

    I think you're right, it's probably the default browser setting in
    xfce4 that I need to tamper with to change this. I don't remember
    anything quite like this when I was using xubuntu, though maybe I did
    it so long ago that I've forgotten.

    I have a complete backup of one of my old xubuntu/xfce4 installations
    but it's currently on a disk in the system that won't boot Debian 12. :-(

    --
    Chris Green

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