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
