evgvs / terminal-url-handler

Add XDG URL scheme handler for term://... to run commands from browser (example on evgvs.com website)

Terminal URL handlers

Add XDG URL scheme handler for term://.... It allows to

• Run commands from websites that support this technology Examples and term:// link calculator
• Create an unified way to run DE's default terminal with commands (the desktop environment decides how to run Terminal=true entries)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/evgvs/terminal-url-handler
cd terminal-url-handler
./install.sh

Or use one-liner: curl evgvs.com/term | bash

Usage

Now you can use xdg-open to open term:// URLs.

xdg-open 'term://ls'

They can be plain text or urlencoded:

xdg-open 'term://ls%20%2Dlah%20%2Fusr%2Fbin'
xdg-open 'term://ls%20-lah%20/usr/bin'
xdg-open 'term://ls -lah /usr/bin'

You can also embed links on your website.

What "workaround" is used?

Chrome changes LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, so terminal emulator can't start. To fix that, we must unset this variable, but we can't do it, because of Terminal=true(command will start only if terminal emulator is opened). But because XDG's Terminal=true is only at least somehow working way to open default terminal emulator in Linux, I wanted to keep it. So there is two handlers: one for term://..., that unsets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and runs xdg-open termrun://..., and one for termrun://... with Terminal=true that runs in default terminal emulator.