On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:24:15PM +0100, Giorgio Lando wrote:
> The command should open in firefox the contents of the X selection
> buffer. So xsel gives me the buffer. In the interactive shell, the
> following command works when the buffer consists in an URL:
>
> firefox `xsel`
>
> Now I have tried the following line in config.h:
>
> { MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, "exec firefox
> `xsel`" },
You might be able to make this work by squeezing it through bash so that
bash expands the backticks, something like this (untested):
{ MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, "exec bash -c firefox `xsel`" },
> ... and as a last resort I have created a shell script called
> firefoxterm:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> firefoxtab `xsel`
>
> It works from the command line, I am able to bind it with xbindkeys,
> but:
>
> { MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, "exec firefoxterm" },
>
> does nothing. The problem is not in the keybinding itself,
> because I am able to bind that combination to other commands without
> problems.
This approach works fine for me - my keybinding is:
{ MODKEY, XK_o, spawn, "exec browse CLIPBOARD" },
and my script is attached - note that it is calling opera (and
optionally iceweasel) instead of firefox - you want to change the
openlink function.
The script needs some tidying/commenting/improving, but it basically
does what I need, so I've not fiddled with it recently. The intention
is that (if called with argument 'CLIPBOARD') it should open all things
that look like URLs on the clipboard and ignore anything non-URL.
Otherwise it opens all URLs given on the command-line, or the current
dir if nothing specified (I use this if I am at a shell prompt and want
to open a browser on the current directory - I just use 'browse')
Karl.
--
http://mowson.org/karl
#! /bin/sh
###########################################################################
## Function to exit with error message.
## First param is return code, remaining params are lines of error message.
#
Fail() {
ExitCode=$1
shift
echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" >&2
echo "$(basename "$0"): FATAL ERROR" >&2
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
echo "$1" >&2
shift
done
sleep 2
TidyUp
exit $ExitCode
}
###########################################################################
## Function to check a list of desired tools are available.
#
Toolcheck() {
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
TOOL="$1"
shift
echo "Checking '$TOOL'"
which "$TOOL" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null \
|| Fail 3 "'which' failed for '$TOOL' - can't find this command."
done
}
#///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
OpenLink () {
SELF=$(basename $0)
if [ "$SELF" = 'browse' -o "$SELF" = 'b' ]; then
opera --nomail --newpage "$1" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
else
# Something is stopping iceweasel from loading the cmd-line URL
# It might be to do with the environment, in that a simple
# invocation of "iceweasel /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc" in this
# script doesn't work, but doing it from shell cmd-line does
iceweasel -new-tab "$1" &
fi
}
#///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
OpenAllOnClipboard () {
STARTEDBROWSER=False
for TARGET in $(xclip -o | tr ' !|<>,' '\n'); do
#for TARGET in $(xclip -o); do
#xclip -o | tr ' !|<>,' '\n' | while read -r TARGET; do
# Choose anything that looks like it could be a url (contains
# a '.' with at least one char on each side) or path (starts
# with a '/' - only absolute paths are reasonable when opening
# from clipboard - there is no sensible working dir)
if [ \
"${TARGET#*?.?}" != "$TARGET" -o \
"${TARGET#/*?/?}" != "$TARGET" \
]; then
# Don't open anything with an '@' in it, since it's probably an email
address!
if [ "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" = "$TARGET" ]; then
OpenLink "$TARGET"
STARTEDBROWSER=True
else
echo Probably email: "$TARGET"
fi
else
echo not URL: "$TARGET"
fi
done
if [ "$STARTEDBROWSER" != "True" ]; then
echo No URL found, opening browser with nothing
OpenLink
fi
}
# old tests for specific things:
# "${TARGET#http:}" = "$TARGET" -a \
# "${TARGET#www.}" = "$TARGET" -a \
# "${TARGET#file:}" = "$TARGET" -a \
# "${TARGET%.htm}" = "$TARGET" -a \
# "${TARGET%.html}" = "$TARGET" \
#///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Toolcheck \
xclip \
opera
if [ "$#" = "0" ]; then
OpenLink "$(pwd)"
elif [ "$1" = "CLIPBOARD" ]; then
OpenAllOnClipboard
else
for TARGET in "$@"; do
OpenLink "$TARGET"
done
fi
