Rofi as a open selector

[pzant]

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• I searched existing reports to see if it is already requested.

What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?

It would be great if I could use rofi to select the application that will open the file specified in one of the arguments.

How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?

I haven't figured out how to do this via dmenu, so I'm asking for advice.

Who will benefit from it?

A function that could replace "Open With" in file managers and replace xdg-open for the terminal.

Rofi version (rofi -v)

Version: 1.7.5

Configuration

default

Additional information

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[DaveDavenport]

I haven't figured out how to do this via dmenu, so I'm asking for advice.

Is the discussion forum then not the better place?

To pick an application in ""dmenu"" mode:

 rofi -show drun -modes drun -run-command 'echo {cmd}'

Then you can get the result and launch it ?

rofi has a file picker build in, so if you run rofi -show drun select your application, hit ctrl-l (kb-mode-complete) it switches to file browser (if the application indicates it can open a file in its desktop file) allow you to select the file and launch it using the selected application (also works in run mode).

[pzant]

@DaveDavenport Perhaps a discussion would be a better place. File picker is not quite suitable for this task. The above solutions is suitable. Thank you.

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