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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  pre-
     ferred 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 appli-
	 cation 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 op-
	 tional 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 al-
     lows 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&at-
     tach=/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				   06/28/2023			     EXO-OPEN(1)

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