I have a large number of MS-Windows internet shortcuts which I would like to keep on using from within Konqueror. It took me some time to figure this out so I am reporting here how it can be accomplished. I have modified the script that can be found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324517 into a script which I named mswinurl-launch: #! /bin/bash # # See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324517 for reference. # MSWindows .url files may have different levels of complexity. The web # address searched for is always of the format: URL=http[and so on] # tr filters out the end-of-line and carriage return characters. # The caret makes grep search for a beginning of line. # The quotes surrounding $1 are needed to accomodate url filenames # containing spaces. FFOPENURL=$(grep -a -G ^URL=* "$1" | tr '\r' '\n') firefox ${FFOPENURL#*=} Obviously, Firefox can be substituted by Konqueror for web browsing as well: replace the last line by: kfmclient openURL ${FFOPENURL#*=} Then, the script should be associated with the .url file type: 1. Open Konqueror, select Settings > Configure Konqueror 2. Select File Associations and then url 3. The url file type is listed as a text association, but aan application association is needed. 3.1 Click on the button Add (the one under the pane displaying x-mswinurl). 3.2 Enter x-mswinurl 3.3 Select application as the Group. 3.4 Click another Add button (the one under Filename Patterns) and add the extensions *.url and *.URL. 3.5 Enter Internet shortcut in the field Description. 3.6 Click another Add button (the one under Application Preference Order) and select the program [path to script]mswinurl-launch 3.7 As the icon, select the shining blue globe. 3.8 Press Apply 4. Delete the text type association and press OK. Best regards, Paul. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org