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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 10:25:38 JST Chris Siebenmann

   Current status: thanks, GNU Emacs and MH-E, for offering spelling correction for the URL in a message I'm reading that I'm trying to click on like GNU Emacs claimed I could. I can't even edit the buffer you're showing me the message in to do spelling changes on it, can't you engage something there?

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 10:28:34 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @cks Couldn't the firefox command be used to open those links?
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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 10:28:35 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     I'm going to have to write a client/server URL opening system that runs over SSH, aren't I. Run the server locally, it SSHs to your remote session and starts the client, which listens for requests to open a URL, passes them to the server, and the server spawns appropriate local Firefox or whatever processes.

     I can do this with X, but there are issues, including that Firefox increasingly wants to use D-Bus for remotely opening URLs, not X properties.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 10:28:35 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     To clarify myself: I use SSH-forwarded remote X today, so today I can be on a remote system and feed URLs to my local Firefox via its remote control feature. It is just rather slow over my current DSL link, because it involves a bunch of round trips to manipulate X properties (and it requires a hacked Firefox that uses X-based remote control, which I have for now).

     On Linux, Firefox's modern remote control normally uses D-Bus, making it intrinsically local-only AFAIK.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 11:07:24 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan Running Firefox on the remote server will either try to run an entire Firefox over SSH-forwarded X (guaranteed to be much worse than just the remote control protocol) or, at the best, try to do the same slow X property manipulation that I do with a little program[1].

     (All browsers can remote control themselves locally, although the mechanism varies. Remote control through X properties works over forwarded X, but not remote control over eg D-Bus.)

     1: https://github.com/siebenmann/ffox-remote

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 11:07:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @cks Ah, I thought you were doing some kind of xdotool-level of hacks with this mention of X properties… what the hell Mozilla.