EXO-OPEN(1) Xfce Users Manual 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 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
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
optional parameters..., where category is either WebBrowser,
MailReader, TerminalEmulator or FileManager.

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>.

Xfce 06/06/2022 EXO-OPEN(1)