XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP - screen locking and xdg-open

johnraff · 2021-07-29 07:00:35

Just a note here:
maybe the time has come to replace XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=BunsenLabs

From Debian Bullseye, exo-open will be relatively useless to us because the preferred applications framework that it refers to is moved to a big XFCE config package that we don't ship in BL.

DeepDayze · 2021-07-29 13:59:04

johnraff wrote:

Just a note here:
maybe the time has come to replace XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=BunsenLabs
From Debian Bullseye, exo-open will be relatively useless to us because the preferred applications framework that it refers to is moved to a big XFCE config package that we don't ship in BL.

What if something that uses exo-open and looks for it and should we then install that XFCE package once we upgrade to Beryllium and would that package cause issues with BL?

johnraff · 2021-08-01 07:19:29

exo-open will continue to be on the system because Thunar depends on exo-utils which provides it. The problem is that it's no longer useful. exo-preferred-applications which used to be in exo-utils has been replaced by xfce4-mime-helper in xfce4-settings, so eg 'exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator' is broken without xfce4-settings. That's a big package which would indeed likely cause issues on BL.

BTW the Debian info on these packages (file-lists and the like) is not yet 100% up to date.

Last edited by johnraff (2021-08-01 07:25:19)

#21 2021-07-29 07:00:35

Re: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP - screen locking and xdg-open

#22 2021-07-29 13:59:04

Re: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP - screen locking and xdg-open

#23 2021-08-01 07:19:29

Re: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP - screen locking and xdg-open

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