[solved] Gnome / Nautilus: Open With CLI programm

Hello,
How can I add CLI programs such as sxiv Image Viewer to the Open With context menu entry in Nautilus?
In particular I want to open images with sxiv by default when clicking on the image in Nautilus.
Thanks
Last edited by orschiro (2013-08-09 20:21:56)

I think the list of "Open With" applications is created by reading the ".desktop" files that are on your computer. You can read about them here. The sysem files are in "/usr/share/applications" and your personal ones are in "~/.local/share/applications". Just create a .desktop file for sxiv that uses a command similar to the one cellisten posted.
GNOME probably also has a way to create .desktop files with a GUI (I think it used to be called "alacarte").
cellisten wrote:What I have done is to create a script and put that in /usr/bin.
Did you copy your OWN file into a directory that's controlled by pacman?

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