nsxiv-thumb

nsxiv-thumb

This script will generate thumbnails for each video file in the current directory and present them via nsxiv in thumbnail mode. After nsxiv is closed, all marked files will be opened sequentially with the specified opener.

As nsxiv does not retain the mark order, the files will be opened in sorted order according to the current locale.

Atypical dependencies for the Linux version are:

• ffmpegthumbnailer

Dependencies not specified by POSIX for the *BSD version are:

• ffmpegthumbnailer
• file with -b and --mime-type flags
• md5
• stat with -f flag

You can change what to open the files with by setting the OPENER variable in the beginning of both scripts. Default is $OPENER or xdg-open. Execute the script like OPENER=echo nsxiv-thumb to use it as a filter. Beware that $OPENER is evaled.

Examples

In this section, you may not blindly swap nsxiv-thumb and nsxiv-thumb-bsd and expect the example to function the same.

Usage with lf

Here we embed nsxiv in our tabbed instance with X ID $TABBED_XID, and set OPENER to printf "%s\0" to use nsxiv-thumb as a filter with null-delimited output. After nsxiv halts, the marked files are selected in lf.

cmd selectnsxivthumb %{{
    OPENER='printf "%s\0"' SIZE=768 nsxiv-thumb -e "$TABBED_XID" | xargs -r0 realpath -sm -- | while IFS= read -r i; do
        lf -remote "send $id select '$i'" && lf -remote "send $id toggle"
    done
    lf -remote "send $id select '$f'"
}}

Authors

• Berke Kocaoğlu [email protected]