Created attachment 335630 [details] patch to add postinst message to fix URL launcher syntax in ~/.Xresources rxvt-unicode 9.16 breaks URL launching because release 9.16 renamed urlLauncher resource to url-launcher: http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2012q4/001702.html If this is not changed in ~/.Xresources [1] then clickable links will no longer work in urxvt. It should be changed from: URxvt.urlLauncher: <browser> to URxvt.url-launcher: <browser> Afterwards issue "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" to commit the change. [1] ~/.Xresources is now default, though ~/.Xdefaults (obsolete) will probably still work: http://xwinman.org/resource.php It might be good to issue a postinst message noting this change. Patch attached.
url-launcher: string Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by the "selection-popup" and "matcher" perl extensions. I am sure users can look this up themselves.
We can "look up" the 2 postinst messages you included, also.
I didn't include those - I would rather get rid of them.
Thanks for posting this bug. With five lines of config for URL matching written several years ago which suddenly don't work with no error message given, and having checked to see if my keyboard had stopped being able to send ctrl-click, whether my browser had stopped launching properly, or wasn't able to take arguments any more, or whether my perl was broken... looking up in the man page just in case the syntax had changed without my being informed isn't something that immediately occurred to me. So thanks for having reported it. Shame lots of other people will have to go through this too.
