1 Introduction
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4 The desktop module provides desktop environment detection and resource opening
5 support for a selection of common and standardised desktop environments. See
6 the module docstring for a more extensive introduction.
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8 Contact, Copyright and Licence Information
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11 No Web page has yet been made available for this work, but the author can be
12 contacted at the following e-mail address:
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14 paul@boddie.org.uk
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16 Copyright and licence information can be found in the docs directory - see
17 docs/COPYING.txt and docs/LICENCE.txt for more information. Whilst I would
18 prefer to release my software under the LGPL or GPL, the Python Software
19 Foundation insists on other licences, and I have chosen one of those in the
20 hope that this module becomes a part of the Python standard library.
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22 Notes
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25 Notes on desktop application/environment support:
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27 KDE Supports file and URL opening using kfmclient, where the openURL
28 command opens the resource and the exec command runs the
29 resource.
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31 GNOME Supports file and URL opening using gnome-open.
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33 ROX-Filer Supports file opening using "rox <filename>" but not URL
34 opening.