Julia library for opening a file with the default application determined by the OS.
Many packages implement variations on the same short code snippet. This package maintains a version that can be shared or tested.
This package intends to be very lightweight, and has no dependencies outside the standard libraries. Nevertheless, if you still don't want to use this as a dependency, you can of course also copy the code of DefaultApplication.open() to another package, but then you will have to repeat this to keep up with bugfixes and developments.
import DefaultApplication
DefaultApplication.open("/some/file.png")open is not exported from the package, because it would clash with Base.open.
| OS | version | status |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Ubuntu 19.10 | ✅ |
| Linux | Ubuntu 19.04 | ✅ |
| Linux | Ubuntu 18.04 | ✅ |
| Linux | Ubuntu 16.04 | ✅ (CI) |
| Linux | Debian 8.0 | ✅ |
| OS X | Darwin 17.7 | ✅ |
| Windows | 10 | ✅ |
| Windows | 11 | ✅ |
| WSL2 | Ubuntu 20.04 | ✅ |
If your OS/version is missing, please test as described below and open an issue with the information so that this table can be extended.
Currently there are only partial unit tests, since the functionality of this package is difficult to test without a desktop environment. Testing, bug reports, feature requests and PRs are welcome.
There is a utility function DefaultApplication.test() for testing, which prints information for bug reports:
julia> import DefaultApplication
julia> DefaultApplication.test()
┌ Info: opening text file with the default application
└ path = "/tmp/jl_ISgu7A.txt"
┌ Info: If the file was not opened, please copy the output and open an issue at
└ https://github.com/tpapp/DefaultApplication.jl/issues
Julia Version 1.4.0-rc1.0
Commit b0c33b0cf5 (2020-01-23 17:23 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
Ubuntu 19.10
uname: Linux 5.3.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 17 17:27:26 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz:
speed user nice sys idle irq
#1 3014 MHz 312924 s 452 s 102521 s 4773911 s 0 s
#2 3005 MHz 392192 s 374 s 79742 s 1121314 s 0 s
#3 3028 MHz 417948 s 275 s 80886 s 1122523 s 0 s
#4 2984 MHz 400951 s 386 s 84294 s 1115707 s 0 s
#5 2909 MHz 411316 s 613 s 82936 s 1120208 s 0 s
#6 2878 MHz 386572 s 368 s 82815 s 1116943 s 0 s
#7 3011 MHz 366070 s 673 s 92152 s 1123035 s 0 s
#8 2997 MHz 383230 s 544 s 82892 s 1124208 s 0 s
Memory: 15.518669128417969 GB (5564.16796875 MB free)
Uptime: 86757.0 sec
Load Avg: 0.58447265625 0.50439453125 0.505859375
WORD_SIZE: 64
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-8.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 1
HOME = /home/tamas
XDG_SEAT_PATH = /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
MANDATORY_PATH = /usr/share/gconf/xubuntu.mandatory.path
DEFAULTS_PATH = /usr/share/gconf/xubuntu.default.path
TERM = eterm-color
PATH = /home/tamas/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
XDG_SESSION_PATH = /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
JULIA_CMDSTAN_HOME = /home/tamas/src/cmdstan/
Process(`xdg-open /tmp/jl_ISgu7A.txt`, ProcessRunning)