make irfanview default image viewer
 

I want to click an image in nautilus to have it loaded in Irfanview.
I use Gnome and when I want to open an image in irfanview with wine, I right-click the image in nautilus and choose 'Open with other application' - in 'Use a custom command' I write 'wine /path/to/irfanview.exe'. This will open up irfanview but the image isn't loaded. So I have to open the image from Irfanview - annoying!
If I use command line $ wine /path/to/irfanview.exe IMG_0261.jpg,
it will load the image when Irfanview starts.

I want to make a script so I can just click the image in nautilus, the script is run and the image loaded, but I don't know how. So far I wrote a script called irfan.sh that contains the command line input:

wine /path/to/irfanview.exe

executing $ ./irfan.sh IMG_2304.JPG
only starts irfanview but not the image. I need to get the image in there somehow.
Help with basic scripting would be greatly appreciated!:)

E

I don't know how GNOME works. But in KDE, you
need to change the file association. You would
need to change this in the

control center -> ??? -> file association .

Does GNOME has a control center?

Also, some window managers have their own configurations.
Look around (i.e., tools -> ???, etc)

Sheng-Chieh

Add $@ to your script, like this: wine /path/to/irfanview.exe $@

Thanks your help!
Adding $@ to my script makes it work in command line, but when I click an image in nautilus irfanview is started but no image is loaded. I don't know how nautilus passes the command to the script. If I change the script to just contain the line 'gqview' it will load the image in gqview.
Any more suggestions? :confused:
E

I forgot you were talking about wine yesterday, obviously IrfanView expects a path in windows form.

Doesn't work:
wine Program\ Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe "/home/jss/Pictures/2005, June, 13/dscn0349.jpg"
wine Program\ Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe "Z:/home/jss/Pictures/2005, June, 13/dscn0349.jpg"

Works:
wine Program\ Files/IrfanView/i_view32.exe "Z:\\home\\jss\\Pictures\\2005, June, 13\\dscn0349.jpg"

Try this wrapper script.

Wow!
I can't believe it. It worked!
Thanks alot dub.wav!
:) :)
I would like to learn a bit of scripting. What does does the code mean?
Could you recommend a good place to start to learn some basic scripting?
E
:Pengy:

I'd advise [1] for learning about scripting. It is aimed at bash, but there is a lot of similarity between bash and sh I think. And a lot of it applies to any shell. csh is a bit different though...

> #!/bin/sh
This is the program that is used to run this script. All scripts should have a "shebang" line at the top, eg "#!/usr/bin/perl" for perl, something similar for python (not my language) or "#!/bin/bash" for bash.

> IRFANVIEW="C:\\Program Files\Irfanview\i_view32.exe"
> ROOT_DRIVE="Z:\\"
These are just setting the variables, which are used later.

> for arg
> do
> ...
> done
For every argument passed to the script (ie things typed after the script name, eg for "$ script file1 file2", the args are file1 and file2)

> wine "$IRFANVIEW" "${ROOT_DRIVE}$(echo "$arg" | sed
> 's/\//\\/g')"
Run wine. Pass it the value of the IRFANVIEW variable (set earlier) for the first argument. For the second argument, concatenate the root drive with $(echo "$arg" | sed 's/\//\\/g').
That bit takes the arguments passed to the script (a file name) and uses "sed" to convert any "/" into a "\".


PS Does Linux have anything similar to Irfan? Though this script sort of does do it...

[1] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/