On 2020-01-17 11:40, [email protected] wrote:
Hey,
Is there a way to open a bunch of files in the same dispVM ? Yes, I can
copy/move those files and open them in the dispVM, that is what I do
right now - but it would be nice if there was a simpler way to do so.
You could write a set of scripts for that fairly easily, depending on
your personal use-case.
Option A
One possibility is to have your local script first start the DispVM
instance spawning a File Manager, then figure out the new DispVM name,
and in a loop send all the files to that DispVM instance. Then Use the
File Manager to open the documents, and when you close the file manager
the DispVM goes away. If you need to retain the documents use the file
manager to send them back first.
Option B
1) The first script adds all the files to a single tarfile and then
calls qvm-open-in-dvm for that one archive file. You can try playing
with using "Open With Other Application" from your File Manager to kick
off the script, but that might just call the script multiple times.
2) Then in the DispVM and have the default app for '*.tgz' be your
script set to extract and open the individual documents with their
respective applications.
Both the sending and receiving scripts could live in the respective
templates so that all AppVMs could send multiple files and the DispVM
could extract and deal with them according to the xdg default
applications for the document types. If you don't like assigning the
*.tgz to have a special handler you can always create the tgz file and
rename it to use a unique extension not assigned to any current application.
Mime/XDG association
https://superuser.com/questions/162092/how-can-i-register-a-custom-protocol-with-xdg
Option C
Create a temporary file system in a file and then use qvm-block to clone
the files and attach and mount that fs into the DispVM. When finished
delete/wipe the temporary file.
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