Questions related to vifm

blackbirdsr71 · 08-11-2021, 10:02 AM

Hi there!
I don't know if there is a dedicated forum for vifm, but since i use arch i'm asking the question within this forum. I'm previewing pdf ang other image related files with ueberzug in the panes in view mode. That's working fine. I can see the content of zip and rar files as well. But i can't preview .docx, ps or eps files, where i get garbage metadata. Is there a way to manage to preview those kind of files? Thanks in advance !!

shruggy · 08-11-2021, 10:49 AM

Well, the default vifmrc handles previewing of .docx files like this:

Code:

fileviewer {*.docx},
          \<application/
           \vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document>
         \ docx2txt.pl %f -

But PKGBUILD for docx2txt installs it as /usr/bin/docx2txt. An easy workaround is to copy that snippet to your ~/.config/vifm/vifmrc (or ~/.vifm/vifmrc, or /etc/vifm/vifmrc) replacing docx2txt.pl with docx2txt.

Also, you should file a bug with the vifm Archlinux package to patch /usr/share/vifm/vifmrc accordingly.

For PostScript files, the default vifmrc only has this:

Code:

" PostScript
filextype {*.ps,*.eps,*.ps.gz},<application/postscript>
        \ {View in zathura}
        \ zathura %f,
        \ {View in gv}
        \ gv %c %i &,

Again, you can add fileviewer PostScript handling to your local vifmrc.

blackbirdsr71 · 08-14-2021, 08:31 AM

Thanks for your reply shruggy! I will give it a try and tell you if it worked.

blackbirdsr71 · 08-15-2021, 06:55 PM

Well, i could solve the issue with .docx files but still can't preview eps files in the panel.