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Opening files with flatpak apps through ranger
Basically ranger is a terminal program.
So anyway to launch those flatpak apps has to be terminal friendly.
There are two ways to launch flatpak apps in my knowledge.
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flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP
This showed how to run GIMP
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The other is to run
.desktop
files under/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications
Here we are going to show how to utilize those .desktop
files.
Cause those .desktop
's are already setup correctly to open files using flatpak
's command-line interface.
For this we need to use a resource opener
.
There are several ways of doing this.
We will show two of them.
The programs we are going to use are:
gtk-launch
xdg-open
The reason is that these two serve different but special cases.
gtk-launch
works as follows:
gtk-launch file.name.desktop big_buck_bunny.mkv
Following is an example using smplayer.
gtk-launch info.smplayer.SMPlayer.desktop big_buck_bunny.mkv
So one would add to their rifle.conf:
mime ^video|audio, X, flag f = gtk-launch info.smplayer.SMPlayer.desktop "$@"
The other way to do this is:
xdg-open target_file.mp4
For this one would add to their rifle.conf:
label open, has xdg-open = xdg-open "$@"
Note: this option is already added to rifle.conf
Notice that xdg-open do not ask which .desktop
file the user want to use.
It simply uses the default opener for that file.
Whereas gtk-launch
needs the .desktop
's name to be used for opening the file.
One place where gtk-launch
may be preferable is when one wants to retain
xdg-open
entry yet open a file using a .desktop
and ensure that a
specific application is used every time, even if someone changes default application
for that file type.
Such an arrangement is shown below :
Note: Default application associations of xdg-open
for different filetypes,
can be changed using xdg-mime
.
But that is out of the scope of this guide.