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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