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'open' is on of the things I long for most as a Linux user. There are several ways to achieve something that are all inferior or downright broken. Usually you d
by wink 12y ago
'open' is on of the things I long for most as a Linux user.
There are several ways to achieve something that are all inferior or downright broken. Usually you don't have a huge problem, until you have. xdg-open for example could've solved this, if it was universally working.
I wrote related rant once[0] when I tried to debug an issue of a misconfigured default browser.
[0]: http://f5n.org/blog/2013/default-browser-linux/ http://f5n.org/blog/2013/default-browser-linux/
- reedlaw 12y agoxdg-open works for me with the GNOME-configured default application.
- JasonFruit 12y agoWhile xdg-open also works well for me with KDE's default applications, when I used to use Openbox or LXDE, it was much less successful. The breadth of the group of tools that respond correctly to KDE settings as opposed to the less-common environments has been one of the reasons I've been so happy to switch.
- ktf 12y agoAlso works great in XFCE, in my experience.
- reledi 12y agoThe fish shell [1] gives you an open command on Linux. Really it's just a function that calls cygstart, xdg-open, or mimedb. It's incredibly handy. 1: http://fishshell.com http://fishshell.com