X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

Re:X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess by chmln on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:44PM (#26908550)

Having lived through the same frustrations I've released https://github.com/chmln/handlr a year ago. It comes with lots of nifty scripting tools and significant improvements over xdg-open

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Re:X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess by neolog on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:27PM (#26909726)

How does it decide what mime-type a file has?

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Re:X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess by chmln on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:28PM (#26920904)

It uses the shared mime database, which in turn relies on both file type and content to detect the mime.

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Re:X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess by icy on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:56PM (#26910834)

Doesn't seem like it does. You set it yourself.

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Re:X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess by vermaden on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:59PM (#26908686)

Thanks - will look into that.

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