EXO-OPEN(1)

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EXO-OPEN(1)

NAME
exo-open - Open URLs and launch preferred applications
SYNOPSIS
exo-open [[url]...]
exo-open --launch [category] [[parameter]...]
DESCRIPTION
exo-open is a command line frontend to the Xfce Preferred Applications fr
amework. It can either be used to open a list of urls with the default URL
handler or launch the preferred application for a certain category.
INVOCATION
exo-open either takes a list of URLs and tries to open each of them using
the default handler, or, when using the --launch tries to launch the preferred
application for a certain category, optionally passing any number of para
meters to the application.
Options
-?, --help
Print brief help and exit.
-v, --version
Print version information and exit.
--working-directory directory
When using the --launch option and this option is specified as well,
the application will be run in the given directory. This is primarily useful
when running the preferred TerminalEmulator from another application
and you want the command in the terminal window to be run in a specific
directory.
--launch category parameters...
Launch the preferred application for the given category with the opti
onal parameters..., where category is either WebBrowser, MailReader,
TerminalEmulator or FileManager.
If you do not specify the --launch option, exo-open will open all specifi
ed URLs with their preferred URL handlers. Else, if you specify the --launch
option, you can select which preferred application you want to run, and p
ass additional parameters to the application (i.e. for TerminalEmulator you can
pass the command line that should be run in the terminal).
COMPOSING EMAILS
exo-open allows users and developers to open the preferred email composer
from the command line by simply invoking exo-open mailto:USER@HOST.TLD. This
will open the composer window with USER@HOST.TLD as the recipient. This s
yntax is supported by all MailReaders. In addition the MailReaders that ship as
part of libexo also support extended mailto:-URIs (but be aware that user
-defined mailers do not necessarily support this), which allows you to also
specify default values for the subject and the body of the mail, add addi
tional recipients (both Cc: and To:) and attach files to emails. For example
mailto:foo@foo.org?cc=bar@bar.org&subject=Foo&attach=/foo/bar.txt tells t
he composer to start an email to foo@foo.org and bar@bar.org with Foo in the

subject and the file /foo/bar.txt attached to the message.

AUTHOR
exo-open was written by Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org.
This manual page was provided by Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org.

Xfce
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