With the Starbuntu program display-url you can open manifold external or local address types by means of the respectively appropriate application: HTTP pages (http(s)://...), FTP folders (ftp://...), SFTP folders (sftp://...), SSH folders (ssh://...), WebDAV folders (davs://...), local files (file://...), a window for composing an e-mail (mailto:...) etc.

This program can be called up in four possible ways:

display-url [1|2] "<address>"
display-url [1|2] <address file *.url>
display-url [1|2] without an address parameter if this one, that means the address or the address file, has been sent to the (primary) selection. Otherwise a file selection dialogue gets started.
display-url -s (switch) without an address parameter displays a web site opened in one of the two browsers also in the other one (hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+u within the first mentioned browser). This feature works only with the two preinstalled browsers and requires that the window names of the browsers are defined in the parameter file $HOME/.config/openbox/environment by means of the environment variables stdbrw_win and brw2_win. Caution: The window designation of a program often does not correspond to the program command. You can determine it after starting the corresponding program using the terminal command wmctrl -l. Another interesting thing is that the -s option, after marking a web address contained in a text, opens it in one of the two web browsers.

The preceding parameter "1" (default browser) or "2" (second browser) or "-s" (switch) is reasonable only if a second web browser is installed and a web address is being called or copied to the clipboard. Otherwise it will be ignored.

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