On Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:30:31 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> Midnight Commander has been using geeqie for viewing images on my
> system. I did a world update last night. Apparently image-viewing
> responsibility has been handed over to /usr/bin/xdg-open which, on my
> system, uses mupdf for jpg+jpeg and google-chrome-stable for png+gif
> images. WTF!?!?!?
>
> /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open /home/waltdnes/downloads/stranded.jpg
> ...invokes...
> mupdf /home/waltdnes/downloads/stranded.jpg
>
> /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open /home/waltdnes/covidy/4bellcurve.png
> ...invokes...
> /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /home/waltdnes/covidy/4bellcurve.png
>
> There's a right way, there's a wrong way, and then there's my way, I
> inserted the following stanza in ~/.config/mc.ext.ini before any mention
> of image formats...
>
> ###Start custom stuff###
> [image]
> Regex=\.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png|jng|mng|tiff|xbm|xpm|ico|svg|pgm|ppm|netpbm)$
> RegexIgnoreCase=true
> Open=/usr/bin/geeqie %p
> View=/usr/bin/geeqie %p
> #End custom stuff###
>
> ...and mc is now back to using geeqie for image display,
Thanks for this! One of my systems had started playing up some time ago, but
I never got around to sorting out this ANNOYING problem. I will duly
implement your solution, with compliments. :-)
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