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NOTE: Doesn't work from RPI terminal.. works just fine from Ubantu terminal | |||
There's a command that knows about your default browser: | |||
xdg-open http://google.com | xdg-open http://google.com | ||
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png). | |||
There is also | |||
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com | |||
and | |||
xdg-mime query default text/html | |||
To find out what application is going to be used. | |||
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications: | |||
[[File:WxhBW.png]] | |||
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec. |
Latest revision as of 17:53, 13 January 2018
NOTE: Doesn't work from RPI terminal.. works just fine from Ubantu terminal
There's a command that knows about your default browser:
xdg-open http://google.com
This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
There is also
xdg-email team@stackexchange.com
and
xdg-mime query default text/html
To find out what application is going to be used.
You can set your preffered application by going to System → Preferences → Preferred Applications:
These utilities are part of the freedesktop.org specification, so you can use them in your applications - and it's going to work on all of the desktops that adhere to the spec.