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Implement openURL on Linux (#642)
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Implement openURL using xdg-open, the freedesktop.org command to
open a resource in the default browser or viewer.

Closes #638 menu manual on linux broken

Incorporate @falkTX comments to use vfork rather than system
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baconpaul authored Feb 21, 2019
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#include "UserInteractions.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

namespace Surge
{
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void openURL(const std::string &url)
{
if (vfork()==0)
{
if (execlp("xdg-open", "xdg-open", url.c_str(), (char*)nullptr) < 0)
{
exit(0);
}
}
}
};
};
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