Shell Script Help Launching Images Automatically In IrfanView (Wine)

[Ray2047]

Just discovered IrfanView can be installed through Synaptic even though it is still a Windows program running in Wine. That is fine I have used it in Wine for years but since I now know it is in the repos  and have installed the official PCLOS version I figure I can now "legally" ask this question.

As it stands IrfanView will not automatically open an image file when you set it as default viewer. Just the program opens then you have to open the image file from within IrfanView. Years ago I used a script to do this in PCLOS but the script stopped working at least two or three years ago. An Internet search has turned up no solution, just the same script. I'm hoping that someone can tweak the script so when I click on an image  IrfanView automatically opens the image.  I had hopes that the script would work with the version from the repos but no luck setting default to the script. (Yes, I have set the script to executable.)

Here's the script:

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#!/bin/sh
IRFANVIEW="C:\\Program Files\Irfanview\i_view32.exe"
ROOT_DRIVE="Z:\\"
for arg
do
wine "$IRFANVIEW" "${ROOT_DRIVE}$(echo "$arg" | sed 's/\//\\/g')"

[Just17]

the script does not appear complete .....  did you copy all of it?

Add the set -x  line to your script as below, and start the script from the terminal, copy any output into your next post ...

#!/bin/sh
set -x

IRFANVIEW="C:\\Program Files\Irfanview\i_view32.exe"
ROOT_DRIVE="Z:\\"
for arg
do
   wine "$IRFANVIEW" "${ROOT_DRIVE}$(echo "$arg" | sed 's/\//\\/g')"
done

[Ray2047]

the script does not appear complete .....  did you copy all of it?

Missed the "done". That seems to have done the trick. (Pun intended). Just tested and it is working. Thanks very much.

[Ray2047]

Well it worked till I screwed it up. I discovered it was opening an install of IrfanView I'd done without Synaptic not the one I had done with Synaptic. I removed my install and it no longer works. I know nothing about shell scripts but I can guess it is pointing wrong. I can't find the location of the Synaptic installed one though the simple command "irfanview" does work in terminal and "which" returns "$ which irfanview
/usr/bin/irfanview"

Too add the install from repos will still open but will not automatically open an image file.

[Just17]

Check the "drive" that is in Wine ......  sorry I do not use it so do not know if it has a 'Z' drive or some other which you should be using.


You might need to add something after the command to pick up the file ....

/usr/bin/irfanview  <here>

[Ray2047]

And that is what puzzles me. There is no "Z" drive but it did work till I screwed it up. There is a drive "C" but substituting "C" for Z doesn't work.

And just to state the obvious no I can't do a new direct install of the one I deleted because the installer tells me there is a version open and to close it but there isn't one open.

My screw up. Thanks for trying.

[Ray2047]

You might need to add something after the command to pick up the file

You mean something like

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#!/bin/sh
set -x

IRFANVIEW="C:\\Program Files\Irfanview\i_view32.exe"
ROOT_DRIVE="Z:\\"
for arg
do
   wine "$IRFANVIEW" "${ROOT_DRIVE}$(echo "$arg" | sed 's/\//\\/g')" /usr/bin/irfanview  <here>
done

[Just17]

You might need to add something after the command to pick up the file

You mean something like

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#!/bin/sh
set -x

IRFANVIEW="C:\\Program Files\Irfanview\i_view32.exe"
ROOT_DRIVE="Z:\\"
for arg
do
   wine "$IRFANVIEW" "${ROOT_DRIVE}$(echo "$arg" | sed 's/\//\\/g')" /usr/bin/irfanview  <here>
done

No, not what I meant.
I meant when launching Irfanview that the Linux launcher might need something added after the command.

In truth, as I explained, I know nothing of WINE so that is possibly not much use.

Maybe changing the heading of this thread to include a reference to Wine might attract someone with knowledge of it     It surely ain't me 


regards