xdg-utils Wednesday Feb 20 3:05:39 2013 I do not really remember how I discovered the 'xdg-utils' debian package. All I know is that I do a lot of work at the command line but I also like the eye candy of the desktop environment. As a matter of chance I came across the 'xdg-open' command to open a graphical window manager instance in the same location where you are on the command line. It comes really handy for example, when you are working inside a git repository and you want to "visually" ensure that everything is right in place before pushing. This way you can use the power of the command line to work like a pro and revise stuff, if needed, on your desktop. I use many aliases to move faster at the command line in the form of: $ cdgitrepo1 or $ cdgitrepo2 and once there, I can launch my graphical window manager by simply typing: $ open (Which is an alias for: 'xdg-open .') By the way, I'm currently using pcmanfm with xfce4 since thunar takes ages to open because it supposedly checks mounted filesystems on the network. In my regular desktop thunar takes 15 seconds to open whereas pcmanfm only 2 seconds. Besides, pcmanfm has the F4 keyboard shortcut that opens a terminal emulator right where you are on the gui manager so they (terminal and gui manager) complement each other perfectly to move from one to the other. Welcome home pcmanfm :) ______________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/1.6 on NetBSD/amd64 9.1