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Aral Balkan

- Hey, did you know that in Linux, you can type the name of an app in Terminal and launch it?

- Oh, neat!

*fires up GNOME desktop* Ooh, let’s try this!

$ files .

- Oh, sorry, not that. That’s nautilus.

- Oh, uh-uh… ok, how about…

$ web

Ah, yes, no, that’s epiphany!

🤔

#YearOfLinuxOnDesktop#design#communication
Feb 03, 2020, 03:49 PM·Public·Web
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Aral Balkan

Cue: “you’re holding it wrong” and “it’s an upstream issue” in 3… 2…

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Carlos Fdez Llamas
@aral

Well it's handled with "open". Try "open https://duckduckgo.com".

Oh, right, it's "xdg-open", which will probably change once Wayland becomes mainstream. You should know that, dumb user!
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Bradley
@sirikon @aral I'm on Wayland since last year and xdg-open works fine.
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RiderExMachina :mastodon:

@aral Nah man, that's a GNOME issue for obfuscating the real name of the applications. Good take 13/10

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It's a me, Mauro

@aral I'm pretty sure you can create aliases :)

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Aral Balkan

@mauro I’m pretty sure GNOME can too ;)

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Xerz 💗
@aral I mean, since everything is so free and modular, you can't have multiple applications calling themselves the same
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C.Cameron 👻

@aral
This is exactly my problem with the terminal, as a medium-weight, non-developer, self-taught Linux-er. Caja, Nautilus, etc. And then I have to go digging to figure out what the terminal name is, since it's often not exactly the same as the name in the menu.

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