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cbwin/outbash for browser link clicking

Open fpqc opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Not sure if this is beyond the scope of your project, but if you install xilun's cbwin and use outbash to run any daemons on startup (instead of bash), this allows setting the default browser (by reconfiguring xdg-open) to "wstart : chrome" or "wstart : firefox" or the same for Opera or Vivaldi, which makes it so clicking links in a linux-side gui application will open the link in the Windows browser of your choice.

In my setup, I run

run.exe outbash.exe -c "urxvtd -q -o -f; DISPLAY=:0 xsettingsd"

on startup, which starts up the rxvt daemon and the xsettings daemon.

fpqc avatar Aug 03 '16 09:08 fpqc

Hm... That's beyond what I originally had in mind for this project, but it also sounds really useful. Maybe there could be a second script that people can run if they want more integration?

aseering avatar Aug 03 '16 16:08 aseering

You could make it an optional section of this script, maybe? When I get home from work today, I'll copy your script's startup (since I still don't understand the syntax for batch files XD), and add in the xsettingsd, rxvt, outbash, etc startup stuff.

fpqc avatar Aug 03 '16 16:08 fpqc