[arch-general] associations for chromium

[Thomas Jost]

Le 29/11/2010 14:11, howitzer at archlinux.us a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:10:21AM +0100, Thomas Jost wrote:
>> Le 29/11/2010 03:26, Sergey Manucharian a écrit :
>>> I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and
>>> protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like
>>> KDE/Gnome most probably everything works out of box. There is an
>>> article in wiki how to use chromium with no DE [1]. It suggest to use
>>> mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo, but it simply does not work (at least in my
>>> case).
>>
>> It works for me with mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo (I'm using Chromium with
>> Awesome WM -- no DE). You have to use ~/.config/mimeo.conf to store your
>> associations, and to use at least mimeo 2010.11.02 (first version that
>> integrates my patch to use this file by default).
>>
>> Here is my mimeo.conf:
>>
>> -----------------8<-----------------
>> # Spotify URLs
>> /usr/local/bin/spotify %U
>>   ^http://open.spotify.com/
>>   ^spotify:
>>
>> # Regular URLs
>> /usr/bin/chromium
>>   ^http://
>>   ^https://
>>   ^ftp://
>>
>> # E-mails
>> /usr/bin/thunderbird -compose
>>   ^mailto:
>> -----------------8<-----------------
>>
>> This is enough to have working Spotify URLs. I guess that for VLC and
>> MMS streams, you would just need the following:
>>
>> -----------------8<-----------------
>> /usr/bin/vlc
>>   ^mms:
>> -----------------8<-----------------
>>
>> To test mimeo, you should first try by running directly "mimeo
>> mms://my-url" in a shell, then "xdg-open mms://my-url", and finally from
>> Chromium.
>>
>> Does such a setup work for you? If it doesn't, could you please post
>> your mimeo.conf here?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- 
>> Thomas/Schnouki
>>
> 
> Can one also use this method to open downloaded files? E.g. I download a
> .torrent file, click to open it in the download tab and voila, there's
> rtorrent/transmission/.. loading the file? (Same with mp3, avi, pdf, ..)
> 
> Regards,
> Adrian

Sure, you can associate any program with any regexp :) For a torrent
file, it would probably be something like this:

/usr/bin/transmission-gtk
  \.torrent%

(The downside is that if does not work with file managers that don't
rely on xdg-open...)

Regards,

-- 
Thomas/Schnouki

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