Whats the deal with opening URLs in XChat on Unix/Linux?
Right-clicking on a URL and selecting Open Link in Browser will open the link in your “preferred browser”. In Gnome, your preferred browser can be changed in System > Preferences > More Preferences > Preferred Applications. Notes for 2.8.0 or newer: Everything should just work automatically without any changes from you. Here’s how the current logic works: • First, it tries to run xdg-open, which is a universal URL handler from freedesktop.org. Most modern Linux desktops will have this now, or in the near future. • If xdg-open doesn’t exist, it will try to detect a running Gnome or KDE desktop. This is done via the environment variables GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID and KDE_FULL_SESSION. • If Gnome is detected, it will execute: gnome-open
