• [gentoo-user] {SOLVED} Midnight Commander now viewing images with /usr/

    From Walter Dnes@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 2 19:40:01 2024
    Midnight Commander has been using geeqie for viewing images on my
    system. I did a world update last night. Apparently image-viewing responsibility has been handed over to /usr/bin/xdg-open which, on my
    system, uses mupdf for jpg+jpeg and google-chrome-stable for png+gif
    images. WTF!?!?!?

    /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open /home/waltdnes/downloads/stranded.jpg
    ...invokes...
    mupdf /home/waltdnes/downloads/stranded.jpg

    /bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open /home/waltdnes/covidy/4bellcurve.png
    ...invokes...
    /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /home/waltdnes/covidy/4bellcurve.png

    There's a right way, there's a wrong way, and then there's my way, I inserted the following stanza in ~/.config/mc.ext.ini before any mention
    of image formats...

    ###Start custom stuff###
    [image]
    Regex=\.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png|jng|mng|tiff|xbm|xpm|ico|svg|pgm|ppm|netpbm)$ RegexIgnoreCase=true
    Open=/usr/bin/geeqie %p
    View=/usr/bin/geeqie %p
    #####End custom stuff###

    ...and mc is now back to using geeqie for image display,

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