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[fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Derek Fountain)]

I saw on Alan Cox's web site that he'd written a useful little device
for GNOME: a button on the panel which fetches the X selection and sends
it to Google for searching. I went to get a copy but the directory on
the FTP site is empty. So I wrote my own KDE version:

===
#!/bin/sh
# \
exec wish "$0" "$@"

wm withdraw .
if { [catch { set word [selection get "STRING"] }] != 0 } { exit 0 }
regsub -all "( |\n)+" "$word" "+" googleWord
exec kfmclient openURL "http://www.google.com/search?q=$googleWord";
exit 0
===

Cut what's between the "==="s and put it in an executable file. Select a
word (or more) and run the program. Up pops a KFM window with the
results of the search from Google. I made it an application and put it
on my panel.

OK, it's not rocket science, but I was rather pleased with myself. :-)


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