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Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? (Datamation)

Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? (Datamation)

Posted Jun 26, 2009 6:59 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? (Datamation) by spitzak
Parent article: Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much? (Datamation)

> (yea there is gnome-open but "gnome-open *" is not the same as selecting all those icons and typing ^O), besides why should I have to know what DE I am running (there is "kde-open" too...)

'xdg-open *' works for me. (I recommend 'alias o=xdg-open'.)


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