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Fragrant1470

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From: Poland

Registered: 2025-03-01

Posts: 42

How to force xfce4 to use update-alternatives instead of exo-open?

Hello,

I know xfce4 makes cool layers of abstractions for various reasons, but I would like to stop using the "Preferred application" system which exo-open uses and always fallback to the update-alternatives standard (I think it comes from POSIX).

I think using both creates unnecessary conflicts and complicates things, so I would like to disable that xfce4 functionality or tell it to delegate its action to update-alternatives.

I hope my message is clear. Please let me know how I can do this.

System:
Host: debian Kernel: 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)