fzf-open

Use fzf to open files in appropriate applications (a la macOS Spotlight)

Features

• Customizable: supports configuration of terminals and openers
• Designed to be launched easily from a hotkey
• Comes with a simple opener: xdg-open not required
• Fast: uses the fantastic fzf

Installation

Arch based

For Arch based distros, fzf-open is on the AUR.

yay -S fzf-open

Other distros

Requirements:

• python
• fzf

For other distros, installation is still simple:

git clone https://github.com/trmckay/fzf-open.git
cd fzf-open
sudo ./install.sh
cd ..
rm -rf fzf-open

Don't forget to configure!

Configuration

Install and run fzf-open at least once for it to create config files. Configuration is located at $HOME/.config/fzf-open/config. An example configuration file is also included in /usr/share/fzf-open/example_config.

Configuration keys (absolute paths only, no environment variables):

KEY	DEFUALT VALUE
OPENER	~/.config/lopen.sh
TERMINAL	xterm
STARTING_DIR	~/
WIN_TITLE	fzf-open-run
WIN_TITLE_FLAG	--title
SPAWN_TERM	False

Most of these can be overwitten by flags:

FLAG	EFFECT
-n	Spawn a new terminal with fzf-open
-o "opener"	Use this as the opener
-d "dir"	Start in this directory
-t "term"	Use this terminal program

If you choose to keep, lopen.sh as the opener. You should customize it at $HOME/.config/fzf-open/lopen.sh, especially if the following default applications do not look sane:

FILETYPE	APPLICATION
Images	feh
Videos	mpv
Text	vim
PDF	zathura
Web	firefox
Terminal	urxvt