lauching MUA from Mail Watcher

Duke Normandin dukeofperl at ml1.net
Wed Jul 28 15:41:59 CEST 2010


On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:50:59 -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Landry Breuil wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/27/10, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl at ml1.net> wrote:
> > > > Hey List...
> > > >
> > > > I want to launch `alpine' whenever I click on the Panel icon. I've set
> > > > the Properties/External Programs/Run on click to `/usr/bin/alpine',
> > > > but - No Joy! Clues please!
> > >
> > > Use exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator /usr/bin/alpine ?
> >
> > Worked like a charm! I'm new to Linux and xfce, coming from BSD
> > land. ;) I'm liking the Xubuntu/Debian world more-n-more everyday!
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> I also wanted to start my mail reader (mutt) in a terminal of a certain
> size, so I use a script like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> xfce4-terminal --geometry 80x50 -e 'mutt -y'

Cool! Another example for future reference. Thanks!
-- 
Duke



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