1EXO-OPEN(1)                    Xfce Users Manual                   EXO-OPEN(1)
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NAME

6       exo-open - Open URLs and launch preferred applications
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SYNOPSIS

9       exo-open [[url]...]
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11       exo-open --launch [category] [[parameter]...]
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DESCRIPTION

14       exo-open is a command line frontend to the Xfce Preferred Applications
15       framework. It can either be used to open a list of urls with the
16       default URL handler or launch the preferred application for a certain
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INVOCATION

20       exo-open either takes a list of URLs and tries to open each of them
21       using the default handler, or, when using the --launch tries to launch
22       the preferred application for a certain category, optionally passing
23       any number of parameters to the application.
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25   Options
26       -?, --help
27           Print brief help and exit.
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29       -v, --version
30           Print version information and exit.
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32       --working-directory directory
33           When using the --launch option and this option is specified as
34           well, the application will be run in the given directory. This is
35           primarily useful when running the preferred TerminalEmulator from
36           another application and you want the command in the terminal window
37           to be run in a specific directory.
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39       --launch category parameters...
40           Launch the preferred application for the given category with the
41           optional parameters..., where category is either WebBrowser,
42           MailReader, TerminalEmulator or FileManager.
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44       If you do not specify the --launch option, exo-open will open all
45       specified URLs with their preferred URL handlers. Else, if you specify
46       the --launch option, you can select which preferred application you
47       want to run, and pass additional parameters to the application (i.e.
48       for TerminalEmulator you can pass the command line that should be run
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COMPOSING EMAILS

52       exo-open allows users and developers to open the preferred email
53       composer from the command line by simply invoking exo-open
54       mailto:USER@HOST.TLD. This will open the composer window with
55       USER@HOST.TLD as the recipient. This syntax is supported by all
56       MailReaders. In addition the MailReaders that ship as part of libexo
57       also support extended mailto:-URIs (but be aware that user-defined
58       mailers do not necessarily support this), which allows you to also
59       specify default values for the subject and the body of the mail, add
60       additional recipients (both Cc: and To:) and attach files to emails.
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62       mailto:foo@foo.org?cc=bar@bar.org&subject=Foo&attach=/foo/bar.txt tells
63       the composer to start an email to foo@foo.org and bar@bar.org with Foo
64       in the subject and the file /foo/bar.txt attached to the message.
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AUTHOR

67       exo-open was written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.
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69       This manual page was provided by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.
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