{"id":177,"date":"2018-02-28T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/daesters\/?p=177"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T09:47:04","slug":"url-link-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/2018\/02\/28\/url-link-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"URL link in linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible to create URL links in linux (well, I only have tested in in nautilus) to open in in browser by clicking.<\/p>\n<p>This goes rather easily, but needs the right contents (link only is not sufficient). One can open a text editor and create a .desktop file. (i named it <em>ethz-link.destkop<\/em>). Important is the <em>URL<\/em> parameter<\/p>\n<p>Now step by step<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a text editor, for example <em>gedit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Put the following content in the file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>[Desktop Entry]<br \/>\nEncoding=UTF-8<br \/>\nName=ETH Homepage<br \/>\nType=Link<br \/>\nURL=https:\/\/www.ethz.ch<br \/>\nIcon=text-html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the <em>URL<\/em> parameter and the <em>Name <\/em>according to your purpose<\/li>\n<li>Save it with the a .desktop extension, for example <em>ethz-link.desktop<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible to create URL links in linux (well, I only have tested in in nautilus) to open in in browser by clicking. This goes rather easily, but needs the right contents (link only is not sufficient). One can open a text editor and create a .desktop file. (i named it ethz-link.destkop). Important is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/2018\/02\/28\/url-link-in-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;URL link in linux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}