From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 16 23:17:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E2616A400 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE1413C4AC for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so2713874pye for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:17:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bya+/N3wNh3HVojJOINmVRn5A6cd+zzNZ3dC9CYzccQ+6Jq2ffmoQd3S+cK3n/21xtvIBW3RvLM3BiJaVZh5VX/0e7+lWGJOKWjSlnCev47X2mL/Ok8HWdu3zR0dqHXhrilt/Yb5w4XduQ8cRAQD8Q1wKtUzGzEG/xPMQ3oxObA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Zl7jZFkR7q20Yr1jou6QOy0v+q/cwzuroRWpmDG29RzpI1RtqYik/LQTnlWfdalOAMMepIXpCeHvxpazOPkvA3/IraxRkTEsUI/BI4pmqad9JlamzqlXGMUJOcYtd1P7fQEM5DwVf5XQwf6ekCQZtzRhBqJfv3cOd7wRyyj1QYM= Received: by 10.35.12.10 with SMTP id p10mr8300957pyi.1184627847354; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.17.10? ( [67.190.229.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 38sm78790723nza.2007.07.16.16.17.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <469BFC84.8020506@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:17:24 -0500 From: jbarnet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Schiz0 References: <539c60b90707161250k6aadaed4sff953baec39403da@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860707161417n744e52d9mcef58f9807ab695d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860707161417n744e52d9mcef58f9807ab695d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve Franks , User Questions Subject: Re: make a symlink to a webpage? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jackbarnett@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:17:28 -0000 Schiz0 wrote: > On 7/16/07, Steve Franks wrote: >> I know this is browser-specific, so let's just say firefox - how do I >> make a link to a page that I can execute directly? This is not the >> type of thing that's easy to google for. I tried copying some of the >> ".url" links from my win32 box and opening them with firefox, but that >> was just wishful thinking... >> >> Thanks, >> Steve > > I'm not sure if you can, to be honest. (Although I may be wrong). > Windows lets you do this because the .url extension is associated with > your browser through the windows registry. Hardly any other operating > systems have a registry type thing...(I don't even think mac has one). > > What you could do is make a shell script that executes your browser > with a command line option with the URL. Check the docs for your > browser, almost every browser lets you do this. Like "firefox > -url=http://asdf.com" or something. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Probably depends on the desktop actually. If you have Gnome or KDE then you should be able to do this, since it is very basic functionality of any modern desktop. I just looked at this in KDE: on your desktop, right click and goto 'new' and then goto 'location [url]' - type in the info and hit 'ok'. I don't have the Gnome installed, but bet that the functionality is there in one of the menus.