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Creating a dedicated dock shortcut for my streaming service web page using .desktop files

I'm trying to create a dock shortcut for a streaming service browser application that does not have a native apllication on the ubuntu store. I was able to create the .desktop file and make it work, ...
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Download all photos from part of a url in Ubuntu 22.04

I want to download all photos from a Facebook post. I noticed that all photos are contained in links that share the following URL: https://www.facebook.com/photofbid=*&set=pcb.1491477148127430 ...
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How can I find the URL for a flash video in Firefox?

At Nasul TV is a TV recorded show, free. I want to be able to find the URL for the video and then to use wget to download it. How can I achieve this?
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Create a shortcut for URL?

How can I create a shortcut for URL in my desktop? I want to use them in Firefox or Chrome. If a copy and paste didn't work. What script I have to use?
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Is it possible to download all mp3s from a domain or URL?

I'd like to download all mp3s from the blog pinchy&friends. I tried the script for mp3 in "http://www.pinchyandfriends.com/dl.php?mp3=*.mp3"; do wget "http://www.pinchyandfriends.com/dl.php?...
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how to create a desktop shortcut for brave-browser in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

I tried to create a desktop shortcut/starter in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which points to a URL for the Brave browser, but it seems impossible. As a Lubuntu 22.04 LTS user I am baffled, because in Lubuntu this ...
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Equivalent of .URL file on Ubuntu

An URL link has been saved in *.url file via Windows. If you double click the file in Windows, it will open your default browser to the indicated URL. Here is an example of *.url file content: [...
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url filtering/whitelisting for apache before it reaches https port

I am running an Apache web server on 80 and 443 in Ubuntu 22.04, and I would like to allow only hosted subdomains, invalid subdomains should be blocked before Apache serves default certificate for ...
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Why is Firefox failing to load hyperlinks from Thunderbird?

I have a problem with Firefox failing to load hyperlinks from emails in Thunderbird. With the default browser set to Firefox, clicking hyperlinks in emails launches the browser but no page is loaded (...
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What editor provides highlighted and clickable hyperlinks? (similar to Notepad++)

I have about a 1000 links in my txt file and I don't want to copy paste them in my browser. So I am looking for a text editor that highlights URLs and makes them clickable.Please note that I am ...
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Parental Control - Ubuntu 22.04

I'm searching for a Parental Control on a Ubuntu 22.04 but not only website and contents restrictions. I would like to access to the list of website visited. And I'd like to restrict APP installation, ...
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Is there an OS independent URL file?

I'm sure you know the .lnk or .url files from Windows that can be used to launch your browser with a given target website. In Ubuntu, I know there are .desktop files, but I personally feel like they'...
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I installed wordpress on ubuntu, but as I run "sudo su", then "cd /var/www" then "ls", I see there is no wordpress directory. How can I solve this?

I installed WordPress on Ubuntu according to the website https://www.journaldev.com/24954/install-wordpress-on-ubuntu, and I am now trying to find the URL of the website. For that, I am following this ...
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How to open .url shortcuts (from Windows) on Lubuntu

I have Dropbox shared with Windows PC's which contain some .url internet shortcuts. These do not open in Lubuntu. How can I open these from Lubuntu? Using the Opera browser on all platforms.
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To monitor and watch a non browser application web operation

How do we monitor, watch and inspect a non browser application, eg. a Telegram channel, downloading operation processes in order to find the original/sourced media file URL ?
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How to open a link in browser from gedit?

I have some text files that contains some links/url. I would like to open the link/url in firefox or chrome when I click (left mouse click) the link. Is that possible? So far I have tried to add a ...
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One URL redirecting to another on Ubuntu 21.10 impish

So I recently setup a github pages site. When I visit the site at https://example.github.io(Obviously that's not the real url) on my phone(Or any device other than my computer), it works fine. However,...
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URL protocol handlers in basic Ubuntu Desktop

There was a way to register URL protocol handlers with Gconf, which is now obsolete and there seems to be no way to do the same with DConf (or Gsettings, its recommended wrapper). How do one properly ...
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wget download file to inurl directory

Is there any way to download file to inurl directory. For example: Here the url is https://url.com/api/discovery/manifest I want the download structure be like root_folder - api -- discovery ---- ...
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I can no longer drag and drop URL links from the Chrome browser to my `nemo` file manager

I followed my instructions here years ago to make nemo my default file manager instead of nautilus (which is the default packaged with Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, etc). I used to be able to (for many years) ...
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URL Link Files do not copy to external storage

I have saved URL links outside my FireFox browser inside a folder named "Research Website Links". I am not saving the URL links inside the FireFox Bookmark Manager because I need my URL ...
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How can I encode and decode percent-encoded strings on the command line?

How can I encode and decode percent-encoded (URL encoded) strings on the command line? I'm looking for a solution that can do this: $ percent-encode "ændrük" %C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk $ percent-decode "%C3%...
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how to place link to URL / Webpage on the launcher? [duplicate]

Has anyone pinned a URL to the Launcher (Ubuntu 20.04)? Nothing I've tried works. Please show how you have done this with a working example. (a link to AskUbuntu.com?) There are a great many posts on ...
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How can I define a Wine application to handle special links?

Is it possible to activate a wine application when I click a URL having a specific method? More specifically my question is this: I have used amule in the past to handle ed2k: links. When I clicked an ...
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Shortcut to open a browser with a switch, such as -ssb or -kiosk

I'd like to ask how to create a clickable shortcut in a folder (or desktop) to open a browser with a switch, pointing to a specific webpage. Below example refers to open a webpage in a Single Site ...
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Thunderbird calendar events don't have clickable URLs turned on

Is there a way to make my T-bird calendars have "live" (clickable) URLs in them? Like many others, my calendar now has lots of Zoom & webex meetings. It's a nuisance to open the event, ...
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How to access micro8ks's dashboard web UI?

There's information how to enable the dashboard extension microk8s.enable dashboard (which I ran) and how to display URLs of other extensions enabled like this: kubectl cluster-info How to get the ...
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Whitelist URLs in Ubuntu 18.04

I'm installing an application server on Ubuntu 18.04 and the install manual requires whitelisting a number of URLs. How to do this in a fresh installed Ubuntu 18.04? Please whitelist the following ...
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How do I change hyperlink colours in LibreOffice Impress?

I have a lot of Powerpoint slides that I converted to LibreOffice Impress. The resulting hyperlinks are very faded, very hard to see. I can't seem to find any way to change the colour of hyperlinks ...
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Is there a way to pass the host: value header in a URL for Apache virtual hosts?

I have two virtual host websites on my Ubuntu 20.04 computer outside the regular Apache2 document root. I can access them just fine in my browser on the same computer. I'm trying to also access these ...
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Unable to drag & drop icons & links from firefox (I'm New) [duplicate]

Hi so I recently switched over to Ubuntu and one things that I dislike is that I'm unable to drag & drop icons & links from firefox to my desktop. I checked under permissions and I have full ...
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New Firefox version with changed sessionstore.js How to get the URL from a firefox tab from the terminal, by bash?

They are simmilar questions like follow already, with solutions, for older Firefox versions: How to get the URL from a firefox tab from the terminal? Get URL of current active tab from Firefox via ...
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Extracting website URL

Is there a way in Ubuntu to find all the directories in a website? I have a website, and I want to check the internal links (directories) of that website. Something like this: ... The problem with ...
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"Invalid desktop entry file" when using "Type=Link" in .desktop files on Lubuntu 20.04

I'm having problems creating a shortcut file to webpages using Type=Link in a .desktop file, on Lubuntu 20.04 Problem When clicking on a .desktop file with content like this .. [Desktop Entry] Type=...
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Iptables url filltering

i have a web app and i want to filter the access like this: block incoming connection to http://my-ip:8080/ access incoming/outgoing to http://my-ip:8080/the-rest-of-the-address actually i want to ...
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how to backup and restore transmission torrents?

I don't quite grasp the relationship between magnet links and torrent file. That being said, I'm Looking to backup transmission "files" -- but which files? Most downloads I've added to transmission ...
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Create .url files when drag and drop from browser instead of .desktop

I used to drag-and-drop links from the browser in Windows to a folder to save them. That created files with extension .url, and the content is like: [InternetShortcut] URL=https://askubuntu.com/ When ...
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Posting images on internet just by pasting link

In Windows, when I was posting an image, I could just post the link with the browse dialog, by putting a url in the location bar. How can I achive the same functionality in Ubuntu with nautilus? For ...
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Google Chrome won't open .URL extension files Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double-clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine. The file is saved with a ".url" ...
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I got a mistake when installing a printer. I chose do not provide the URI number, when I should said yes

I got a multi functional printer, Brother brand, Model DCP-T510W. I downloaded the drivers as the web page recommended and everything was running well. Nonetheless, when a question comes and asked: --...
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How to reset external protocol handler in Chrome?

A while back I selected "Do nothing" when Chrome asked me how to handle a specific url. Now I want Chrome to launch xdg-open, which again can launch the correct application, but I can't figure out how ...
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Website Hosting Virtualbox Ubuntu Server 18.04

I am a freelance part time website builder (yeah I know, try to stop laughing). I want to host a website on my VirtualBox (6), running Ubuntu server 18.04, so I (and or a client) can see a site I am ...
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Location of the URLs of the open tabs of Chromium browser in Ubuntu

I want to save all URLs of opened windows of google chromium in different text files with command line. In order to do that, I would need to know where google chromium stores their current google ...
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wget from file and save as acording to file name

I have multiple files, each file contains a URL. How can I use wget to read each file and download the URL inside it, save it as the container file name? EX : file name.frm contains : http://...
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Web browsers: HTTP not working in ubuntu 18.04 but HTTPS does

I've never seen such thing before. In ubuntu 18.04 LTS almost after 6 months, I have problem in loading HTTP urls in Firefox, Chrome even by wget. But I have no problem with same urls in HTTPS mode. ...
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CURL not working but ping and nslookup yes working with local DNS server Ubuntu16.04

We are working with Bind server on Ubuntu 16.04. We are unable to curl because DNS resolution but ping and nslookup are working from Ubuntu16.04 client. Client - ping: root@app-01:~# ping -c1 ...
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How to change what xdg-open does with ssh://user@ip liniks

xdg open has ignored my directives. I have found several threads regarding how to open ssh://user@ip links (these are in our monitoring software). I have run the following commands: gconftool-2 -s /...
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gnome-terminal highlight URLs ending in close-paren

When gnome-terminal 3.6.2 highlights a URL ending in ), it incorrectly omits that ). Such URLs are found in wikis with disambiguation pages, such as http://zelda.gamepedia.com/Ocarina_of_Time_(Item), ...
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Issue to install Nvidia 2080 ti driver with Python

Good morning, I actually have boring issue, trying to install the Nvidia 2080 ti driver on a Ubuntu 18-04 workstation. I reinstalled a Ubuntu 18-04 workstation with a new partition schema. The seller ...
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URL prompting download instead of reading page

I have a weird error. On my phone, a URL works, displaying the web page within. On my laptop (Thinkpad Ubuntu 18.04) whether on Firefox or Chromium, the URL prompts the download of the file, saying ...