Introduction to Exo
Exo is a support library used in the Xfce desktop. It also has some helper applications that are used throughout Xfce.
Note
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Package Information
Exo Dependencies
Required
GTK+-3.24.40, libxfce4ui-4.18.4, and libxfce4util-4.18.1
Optional
GTK-Doc-1.33.2
Installation of Exo
Install Exo by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
Command Explanations
--enable-gtk-doc
: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.
Contents
Installed Programs: exo-desktop-item-edit and exo-open
Installed Libraries: libexo-2.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/exo-2 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/exo-2
Short Descriptions
exo-desktop-item-edit
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is a command line utility to create or edit icons on the desktop
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exo-open
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is a command line frontend to the Xfce Preferred Applications framework. It can either be used to open a list of urls with the default URL handler or launch the preferred application for a certain category
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libexo-2.so
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contains additional widgets, a framework for editable toolbars, light-weight session management support and functions to automatically synchronise object properties (based on GObject Binding Properties)
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