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====== Preferred Applications ====== | ====== Preferred Applications ====== | ||
- | As of Xfce 4.3, the **Preferred Applications** framework can be used to easily manage default applications used for various services. This includes selecting the default application to be used as a web browser, mail reader, file manager and terminal emulator. | ||
- | ====== Usage ====== | + | Since xfce4-settings 4.15.1 preferred applications have been moved from exo to xfce4-settings. Please refer to the [[xfce: |
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- | You can access the application by clicking on the **Preferred Applications** button in the [[: | ||
- | ===== Internet applications ===== | ||
- | The first page of the configuration dialog allows you to select your preferred Web Browser and Mail Reader. The selected Web Browser will be used to open hyperlinks that you click on and to display the documentation, | + | ===== Command-line Options ===== |
- | <figure " | + | A simple command line front-end to the Preferred Applications framework is included, called '' |
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- | To select a different Web Browser than the current default one, click on the button in the {gui> | + | '' |
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- | If the Web Browser you are looking for is not automatically detected by the system, you can select {gui> | + | |
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- | The special marker | + | |
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- | ===== Utilities ===== | + | |
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- | The first page of the configuration dialog allows you to select your preferred terminal emulator. The preferred terminal emulator will be used throughout the Xfce Desktop Environment to launch applications that need to be run in a CLI (command line interface) environment. | + | |
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- | <figure "Other applications"> | + | |
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- | For custom terminal commands, the special marker '' | + | |
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- | ====== exo-open ====== | + | |
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- | A simple command line frontend to the Xfce //Preferred Applications// | + | |
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- | // | + | |
exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator mutt | exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator mutt | ||
- | while to just open the preferred Web Browser, the following command would be used: | + | In order to open the preferred Web Browser |
exo-open --launch WebBrowser | exo-open --launch WebBrowser | ||
- | The second mode supported by exo-open opens all parameters passed to it with the default URL handlers. Here URLs mean either fully qualified URLs (i.e. '' | + | The second mode supported by exo-open opens all parameters passed to it with the default URL handlers. Here URLs mean either fully qualified URLs (i.e. '' |
- | exo-open | + | exo-open |
- | To start composing | + | To start composing |
exo-open mailto: | exo-open mailto: | ||
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