dfmd

A small utility daemon to handle "open containing folder" activities in various software.

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Dependencies

• DBus
• xdg-open as the default handler

Building

cargo build --release

Configuration

Use the DFMD_*_PROGRAM environment variables. %ARGS% is substituted with a list of input files.

Default handler programs

DFMD_FOLDER_PROGRAM: echo %ARGS% | xargs -n1 xdg-open
DFMD_ITEMS_PROGRAM: echo %ARGS% | xargs -d " " -I {} sh -c 'p="{}"; echo "${p%/*}"' | xargs -n1 xdg-open
DFMD_PROPERTIES_PROGRAM: echo %ARGS% | xargs -n1 xdg-open

Autostart

Create a DBus service in $XDG_DATA_HOME/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service.

(The default directory for XDG_DATA_HOME is $HOME/.local/share/)

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.FileManager1
Exec=path/to/dfmd