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====== Preferred Applications ======

Since xfce4-settings 4.15.1 preferred applications have been moved from exo to xfce4-settings. Please refer to the [[xfce:xfce4-settings:preferred-apps|xfce4-settings documentation]].
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====== exo-open ======

A simple command line front-end to the Preferred Applications framework is included, called ''exo-open''. You can use this utility to launch the preferred application for a certain category or open URLs with the default URL handler.

''exo-open'' supports two operation modes. The first will simply launch the preferred application for a certain category, optionally passing a parameter. For example, to launch the command ''mutt'' in your set preferred Terminal Emulator, you would use:

  exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator mutt

In order to open the preferred Web Browser with no additional parameters, the following command would be used:

  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. ''https://www.xfce.org/'' or ''mailto:xfce4-dev@xfce.org''), or local paths (i.e. ''~/myfile.txt''). For example, to open ''~/file1.mp3'' and ''~/file2.txt'' in the set default applications, you would use the following command:

  exo-open ~/file1.mp3 ~/file2.txt

To start composing an email to the xfce4-dev mailing list in the preferred mail reader application for instance, you can type:

  exo-open mailto:xfce4-dev@xfce.org


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