Route different URLs (or other things) to different "default" programs based on patterns. For example, you might route all work-related URLs to one web browser, and everything else to the other.
The program is unstable and experimental right now, so installation is a little tricky. Here's what I'm doing to install.
pip install -U .
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
ln -s share/applications/com.codemouse92.thataway.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
xdg-settings set default-web-browser thataway.desktop(Please don't sudo pip install. Ever. Even here.)
Thataway will not run without some rules being set up. These are added
with the --add-rule argument, or by editing .config/thataway/rules.json
in your home folder.
Rules are based purely on domain name. * can be used as a wildcard anywhere.
google.com will only match that exact domain; *.google.com will match
any subdomain as well (or no subdomain). Priority is given to exact match
over wildcard.
Let's start with the default browser rule:
thataway --add-rule url '*' 'brave-browser-stable %'This will open all URLs with brave-browser-stable. The % is where the URL
is subtituted in.
Now let's have all docs.google.com links to go a new tab in Firefox.
thataway --add-rule url 'docs.google.com' 'firefox --new-tab %'However, let's open all other Google links in Brave.
thataway --add-rule url '*.google.com' 'brave-browser-stable %'Thataway will always select