Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/xdgctl

21•mitjafelicijan•2h ago

Author here. I made this little TUI program for managing default applications on the Linux desktop.

Maybe some of you will find it useful.

Happy to answer any questions.

Comments

cda2100•1h ago

You vibe coded a TUI to set some env vars?

Is this every Show HN now?

JonAtkinson•1h ago

Who are you to tell people what to be proud of, and and what to want to share?

ranger_danger•45m ago

What have you shown that's better?

untech•1h ago

Looks neat!

sourcegrift•48m ago

No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've been failing since 19 years personally. If you've really succeded then congratulations!

nickjj•21m ago

> No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux.

I've only been using Linux for a few weeks but what am I missing here?

I set a bunch of mime types in `~/.config/mimeapps.list` which are assigned to desktop apps and they all open perfectly with `xdg-open` or when I launch them through a file manager.

It is documented in the XDG specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps/latest/file....

jwrallie•24m ago

Just by reading the title, I’m sold! This should be very useful specially if you are not using a desktop environment that manages the default apps.

I always alias open to xdg-open, it’s so useful to open a file directly from the terminal.

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