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
framework. 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
parameters 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 primarly 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 optional
parameters..., where
category
is either
WebBrowser,
MailReader
or
TerminalEmulator.
If you do not specify the
--launch
option,
exo-open
will open all specified URLs with their preferred URL handlers. Else, if you specify the
--launch
option, you can select which preferred application you want to run, and pass 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 syntax 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 additional 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 the 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>.
