What should be used instead of the deprecated gnome-open in Ubuntu 18.04? [duplicate]
I used to open images with gnome-open
from a terminal, but after installing Ubuntu 18.04, the library is missing and if I search from apt
, it shows:
➜ data git:(master) ✗ apt search gnome-open [18/06/14|11:35AM]
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libgnome2-bin/bionic 2.32.1-6 amd64
Deprecated GNOME 2 library - binary files
Are there any substitution for this command?
Thank you!
Use the xdg-open
wrapper instead, or gio
from libglib2.0-bin
. Both are installed by default in Ubuntu 18.04.
I'd prefer xdg-open
, which wraps around several DE-specific openers (and will likely be kept updated to use whichever tools are currently supported). For example, the old GNOME3 tool used to be gvfs-open
. xdg-open
used to use gvfs-open
, and after it was deprecated, xdg-open
has been updated to use gio open
.
In 18.04:
$ grep -e gio -e gvfs "$(command -v xdg-open)"
if gio help open 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
gio open "$1"
elif gvfs-open --help 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
gvfs-open "$1"
...
In 16.04:
$ grep -e gio -e gvfs $(command -v xdg-open)
if gvfs-open --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
gvfs-open "$1"
...