[PCManFM] and .local/share/applications: associate all MimeTypes

Michael Uplawski · 11-11-2017, 03:01 AM

Good morning.

I am currently unable to define a user-command to apply to *all* selected files in a directory, if they are not all of the same MimeType.

The commands, that are defined for PCManFM are just new file-associations, which you find afterwards in “.local/share/applications”, like this one for 1 or many xz-compressed tar-archives:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Goto Linked Dir
Exec=~/bin/goto_linked_dir %F
Categories=Other;
NoDisplay=true
MimeType=application/x-xz-compressed-tar
Terminal=false

Is there a way to specify *all* for the MimeType, as it will make sense in many situations?

TIA,

Michael

ondoho · 11-12-2017, 02:53 AM

you can right-click on the parent folder and choose "open with..." your script.
just make sure not to make it the default!
you can also specify custom actions in ~/.local/share/file-manager/actions/*.desktop.
example:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name = Open as Root
Tooltip = Open the folder as root
Icon = terminal
Profiles = on_folder;

[X-Action-Profile on_folder]
Name = Open as Root
MimeTypes = inode/directory;
SelectionCount = 1
Schemes = file;
Exec = sudo pcmanfm %f

Michael Uplawski · 11-15-2017, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

you can also specify custom actions in ~/.local/share/file-manager/actions/*.desktop.

Thank You.
I am currently too far away from my PC to try that out but, if I understand you, it suffices to omit the MimeType altogether. Too simple.

Michael Uplawski · 11-15-2017, 01:39 PM

This does not work.

The desktop files, which I modified by commenting out the MimeType, are no longer available from PCManFM. Commands, that I define as applicable to several files of different type (like: ogv, pdf and txt), will not be persisted, even if I define a name for that command.

It seems, that for the input to those user-defined commands, only one file-type (MimeType) is possible, and the line “MimeType” mandatory in the resulting .desktop file...

... until you teach me otherwise.