YAD Application

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1. Yad Application

This will display application selection dialog.

1.1. --app

Display application selection dialog

Command

yad --app

Figure 1. Application dialog

Result

geany

1.2. --enable-fallback

Show fallback applications.

Command

yad --app --enable-fallback

1.3. --enable-other

Show other applications.

Command

yad --app --enable-other

Figure 2. Application dialog --enable-other

1.4. --enable-all

Show all applications

Command

yad --app --enable-all

Figure 3. Application dialog --enable-all

1.5. --extended

Output all application data.

Shown extended information about choosen application. By default only executable is shown. In extended form the output fields are name, display name, description, icon and executable.

Command

yad --app --extended

Figure 4. Application dialog --extended

The output looks like this

Geany|Geany|A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK+|geany|geany|

Additional argument for application dialog is a mime-type. If mime-type is not specified text/plain will be used.

2. Mime-types

Show applications that has mime-type text/html.

Command

yad --app text/html

Figure 5. Application dialog with mime-type text/html

Command

yad --app application/x-archive

Figure 6. Application dialog with mime-type application/x-archive