[PuercoPop]

> The plumber is cool, it’s like “what if xdg-open was good actually”

Yeah, plumber is way better than xdg-open in that it is extensible and it can be invoked from a script more easily via 9P. Given how hard it to customize xdg-open, I use a xdg-open wrapper that gets the caller's name using procfs and sends it to the plumber service. That way I can open links on a different browser depending from where the link was clicked/opened from .

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  # this is named xdg-open and placed in a directory that is
  # before /usr/bin in the $PATH

  PARENT_COMMAND=$(cat "/proc/$PPID/comm")

  case "$PARENT_COMMAND" in
      slack)
   /home/puercopop/src/plan9/bin/9 plumb -s slack "$@"
   ;;
      zoom)
          /home/puercopop/src/plan9/bin/9 plumb -s zoom "$@"
   ;;
      *)
   /usr/bin/xdg-open "$@"
   ;;
  esac

And then on my plumbling file I have

  type is text
  src is zoom
  data matches 'https?://.*'
  plumb to firefox-trunk $data

  type is text
  plumb to xdg-open $data