How to call default browser

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Wed Aug 29 22:29:36 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 22:32 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Btw, there is no default *graphical* text editor. What do you think
> > could be defined as that?
> 
> xdg-open could do that too. When opening a text file it will use the
> corresponding freedesktop application. In fact it could be used to
> open
> any type of file/URL.
However, it is probably meant to really use a text editor and not
whatever is associated with the file type, so xdg-open is not adequate.
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