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====== Exo - Helper Applications ======

  * **[[#Applications|Applications]]**
  * **[[#Required Packages|Required Packages]]**
  * **[[#Debugging Support|Debugging Support]]**
  * **[[#Latest Release|Latest Release]]**
  * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]**
  * **[[https://developer.xfce.org/exo/index.html|exo API documentation (for developers)]]**
  * **[[#Reporting Bugs|Reporting Bugs]]**

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Exo is an Xfce library targeted at application development, originally developed by
[[https://www.os-cillation.de/en/opensourceprojekte/libexo/|os-cillation]]. It contains various custom widgets and APIs extending the functionality of GLib and GTK. It also has some helper applications that are used throughout the entire Xfce desktop to manage preferred applications and edit ''.desktop'' files.

exo is targeted at application development and is considered ready for production use. You no longer need to define the EXO_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE preprocessor symbol.

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===== Applications =====

  * **[[desktop-item-edit|Desktop Item Editor (exo-desktop-item-edit)]]** -- Editor for .desktop files

  * **[[preferred-applications|exo-open]]** -- CLI tool in order to open various file formats

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===== Required Packages =====

  * [[https://developer.gnome.org/gio/|GIO]]
  * [[https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib|GLib]]
  * [[https://www.gtk.org|GTK+]]
  * gthread
  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui|libxfce4ui]]
  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4util|libxfce4util]]
  * gio-unix

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===== Debugging Support =====


libexo currently supports four different levels of debugging support, which
can be setup using the configure flag `--enable-debug' (check the output of
`configure --help'):

  `full'    This is the strongest option. Deprecation and some coding style
            checks are made and will cause the build to fail for any errors
            or warnings.

  `yes'     This is the default for Git snapshot builds. It adds all kinds
            of checks to the code, and is therefore likely to run slower.
            Use this for development of libexo and locating bugs in libexo.

  `minimum' This is the default for release builds. This is the recommended
            behavior.

  `no'      Disables all sanity checks. Don't use this unless you know
            exactly what you are doing.

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===== Latest Release =====

{{rss>https://archive.xfce.org/feeds/project/exo 1 date 2h}}

[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/exo/-/blob/master/NEWS|Read the CHANGELOG]]

  * **[[https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo/|Download current release]]** (older versions of this component are also available here)

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===== Source Code Repository =====
[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/exo|]]

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===== Reporting Bugs =====

  * **[[:xfce:exo:bugs|Reporting Bugs]]** -- List of currently open bugs and instructions on how to submit new bug reports


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