On 29Jun2015 20:02, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
Have you tried:
COMMAND /usr/bin/safari %s
(use the correct path for safari on your system)
OSX desktop apps tend not to live in the /usr/bin etc places.
The standard way to bring up a URL (or, indded, most other things) in a desktop
app is what the OP recited:
open URL
which will open the appropriate app for whatever it is.
You can be specific by going:
open -a safari URL
to hand it to safari.
One thing that can happen if the caller is in something like tmux or screen is
that the session can survive a desktop login/logout and one needs to use a
special tool to reattach to the current desktop before commands like "open"
will work again. But it doesn't sound like that is the OP's problem.
I would suggest to the OP that they change their config to explicitly request
safari to see of the behaviour changes:
open -a safari %s
Also, they could augument their config to see if the command is being fired at
all, or being fired incorrectly:
exec 2>>$HOME/some-logfile.txt; set -x; open -a safari %s
and tail that log file from outside.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
On Monday 29 Jun 2015 19:28:34 russurquha...@verizon.net wrote:
I tried that and the Safari window opened.
That is what had me puzzled. I think i have everything from my old install.
I recompiled. The only other thing, was i did the ./configure, make and
those worked, but when i tried the make install, it failed trying to write
the man pages to the man directory.
However, urlview got compiled and put in the correct place, and gets called
when i do a Ctrl + b.
On 06/29/15, David Champion<d...@bikeshed.us> wrote:
* On 29 Jun 2015, russurquha...@verizon.net wrote:
> My urlview file has this line:
>
> COMMAND open %s
What happens when you open a terminal and type:
open http://www.google.com/
?
You may need to do something in the OS layer for your preferred handler
for URLs. "open" just taps into that.
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Regards,
Mick
