### Signal

# Gtk Label::activate-link

#### Declaration

    gboolean
    activate_link (
      GtkLabel* self,
      gchar* uri,
      gpointer user_data
    )

#### Description [src]

Gets emitted to activate a URI.

Applications may connect to it to override the default behaviour, which is to call `gtk_file_launcher_launch()`.

Default handler: The default handler is called after the handlers added via `g_signal_connect()`.

#### Parameters

`uri`

  Type: `gchar*`

  The URI that is activated.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if the link has been activated.