urxvt and urlLauncher not working

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I recently found myself having problems with urxvt. In my configuration-file, .Xdefaults, I had the following lines set up:

URxvt.perl-ext-common : default,matcher
URxvt.urlLauncher : /usr/bin/google-chrome

1 2	URxvt.perl-ext-common : default,matcher URxvt.urlLauncher : /usr/bin/google-chrome

This would enable urxvt to highlight a link in white, and when clicking it would launch the URL in to a tab of my browser of choice. But one day it suddenly stopped working, for no apparent reason. After a little digging, I found the following in urxvt’s changelog, http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes:

– INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: renamed urlLauncher resource to url-launcher.

Changing URxvt.urlLauncher to URxvt.url-launcher in .Xdefaults seemed to fix the problem!

8 thoughts on “urxvt and urlLauncher not working”

Mic92 2013-02-20 at 23:47

Thanks, You made my day! My launcher didn’t work for weeks and I couldn’t figure out why.

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1. Jorge 2013-02-21 at 08:29
  
  Hehe, glad I could help!
  
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Jens Becker 2013-05-16 at 18:05

Thank you!

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allo 2013-08-04 at 20:54

Thank you! I got a newer version, and thought, if the script is broken, some perl module missing or something similiar. Your post helped a lot.

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Carlos 2013-09-11 at 21:45

Thank you!

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dwa 2014-01-03 at 05:49

This fixed my matcher in Arch. Great.

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w4cky 2015-03-02 at 20:45

Thank you!!! 🙂

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Erus_Iluvatar 2018-09-02 at 14:20

I got back to Linux recently after a long time : thank you, i was going mad with my old config not working…

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