> My solution is truly disgusting, but works. I've patched bash so that I
> can paste (middle click) a http URL onto the command line and it will
> start in netscape. As I always have at least one terminal open on my
> desktop that does the job perfectly.
Whenever I'm doing this I tend to
1) Highlight the text
2) Click the middle mouse button at the start of the dialog I want to
paste to
3) Hit Ctrl-K (deleting all the old text to the right of the cursor)
4) Press return.
This tends to work no matter what you are using - there are better ways
depending on what browser you use, etc, but this tends to work
universally. YMMV.
Later.
Mark.
P.S. Try putting the mini-commander applet in gnome in it's own toolbar,
put it bottom right, remove the tabs and set it to slide out - voila - a
prompt that materialises whenever I put my cursor in the bottom right of my
screen - and one that can accept pasted urls.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name => 'Mark Fowler', Title => 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm => 'Profero Ltd', Web => 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
