Exo-0.12.4

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2019-02-27

### Chapter 35. Xfce Desktop

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# Exo-0.12.4

## Introduction to Exo

Exo is a support library used in the Xfce desktop. It also has some helper applications that are used throughout Xfce.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo/0.12/exo-0.12.4.tar.bz2

- Download MD5 sum: 962bbccb38db0aecd4151ca97f6a39bc

- Download size: 1.2 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 26 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with tests)

### Exo Dependencies

#### Required

GTK+-3.24.5, libxfce4ui-4.12.1, libxfce4util-4.12.1 and URI-1.76

#### Optional

GTK-Doc-1.29

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/exo

## Installation of Exo

Install Exo by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Command Explanations

`--enable-gtk-doc`: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

## Contents

Installed Programs: exo-csource, exo-desktop-item-edit, exo-open and exo-preferred-applications
Installed Libraries: libexo-1.so and libexo-2.so
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/xfce4, /usr/{include,lib/xfce4}/exo-1, /usr/include/exo-2, and /usr/share/{{gtk-doc/html,pixmaps}/exo-1,xfce4}

### Short Descriptions

exo-csource | is a small utility that generates C code containing arbitrary data, useful for compiling texts or other data directly into programs.
exo-desktop-item-edit | is a command line utility to create or edit icons on the desktop.
exo-open | is a command line frontend to the Xfce Preferred Applications framework. It can either be used to open a list of urls with the default URL handler or launch the preferred application for a certain category.
exo-preferred-applications | is a command line utility to edit the preferred application that is used to handle a particular type of file or URI.
`libexo-1.so` | contains additional widgets, a framework for editable toolbars, light-weight session management support and functions to automatically synchronise object properties (based on GObject Binding Properties).

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