Open files independently of CliFM - closing CliFM shouldn't close the application launched

[vorboyvo]

Hello,

I was trying to figure out how to launch files (using Lira) such that if I close CliFM, the application, be it the PDF reader or be it the text editor which I've configured to open in a new terminal window, doesn't close.

I've looked into:

• Using an external opener - I like Lira's configuration though and I don't really like xdg-open.
• Configuring it per filetype - I want this globally though, so no matter the type of file I want to open or what I open it with, it should behave in this way.

Maybe there's something obvious I'm missing - feel free to point it out to me if that's the case. Otherwise, is this possible? if so how can I do it?

Thank you!

[leo-arch]

Hi @vorboyvo. Just remove your mimelist file (~/.config/clifm/profile/default/mimelist.clifm) and restart Clifm: the file will be created anew. It should work out of the box.

The current mimelist file uses the %x flag by default for GUI opening applications. This means: the file is opened in the background and both STDERR and STDOUT are silenced.

Example entry:

X:.*/pdf$=mupdf %x

TLDR; You're using an old mimelist file.

[vorboyvo]

Hi, I installed CliFM yesterday and other than modifications I made yesterday, my mimelist looks the same - it has the %x flag for GUI opening things. Here is my mimelist. I'm using sway on NixOS with alacritty if it may matter at all. I'm using nixpkgs/nixos-unstable and CliFM is up to date (1.21) on there.

[vorboyvo]

Additional info that may be helpful: even closing clifm through q if I have launched it directly (through the .desktop file, which has Exec=clifm with Terminal=true, or by running alacritty -e clifm) quits the launched application - not just Mod+Shift+Q.

[leo-arch]

This thing should be working now. Compile and run the latest development version:

mkdir build
cd build
git clone https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm --depth=1
cd clifm
sudo make install
clifm

Make sure you're running the latest version (1.21.13) using the version command.

[vorboyvo]

Will do once i figure out how to with nix!

[leo-arch]

What's exactly the problem with Nix? Doesn't it have make or git? Or maybe some dependencies issue? In this latter case you can take a look at the build dependencies section of the Wiki.

In any case, just clone the repo and run make and then ./clifm to run the local copy generated by make(1).

[vorboyvo]

seems to work, thank you!

since your build dependencies section doesn't have an entry for nix, here's the build dependencies from the package:
libcap acl file readline python3

[leo-arch]

You're welcome! And thanks for the dependencies list.

[vorboyvo]

Seems like the command 'x' still has this issue - with foot as well as with alacritty.

[leo-arch]

Should be working now.