Hello Jorge,

Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo <jorge.alfaro-muri...@yale.edu> writes:

> Xavier Maillard writes:
>
>> What is emacsclient.desktop exactly ? On my slackware, there is
>> nothing named like this.
>
> Inside a desktop environment (e.g. GNOME, KDE, Xfce), xdg-open
> passes the arguments to that desktop environment's file-opener
> application (gvfs-open, kde-open, or exo-open, respectively).
> When no desktop environment is detected (e.g. using Openbox),
> xdg-open will use its own configuration files, emacsclient.desktop
> is the call to the emacs server, if you do not use the server you
> could use emacs.desktop instead.

Thank you very much for these clarifications. Should I expect
anything from xdg-* when not using a desktop environment at all ? (I
am using something home-brewed where I could add support for
something like this but that's not for now).

Also, can you share an emacsclient.desktop file ?

Regards
-- Xavier.

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