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                                               06/05/2018                                        EXO-OPEN(1)