Re: How to start a filemanager in Gtk2 "the proper way"

[Chris Angelico <rosuav gmail com>]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> on Linux you can use the `xdg-open` command[1] (it should be available
> on any reasonably modern distribution as part of the cross-desktop
> utilities[0]). you can use xdg-open to open any file or URI you pass
> to it with the correct application for the file's MIME type; if that
> path is a directory, then the default action is to open a file manager
> window.

Available, maybe, but not necessarily installed. It wasn't on several
of my Debian systems.

ChrisA