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Magnus

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Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 51

Catfish custom action no longer works

In Thunar I have a custom action so I can search on Catfish on the currently opened folder, the command is "catfish --fileman=thunar --path=%f". Problem is now the command no longer works. The version of catfish is 1.2.1. Did they remove the --fileman option?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: Catfish custom action no longer works

Looks like it:

$ catfish --help
Usage: catfish.py [options] path query

Options:
  --version      show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose  Show debug messages (-vv debugs catfish_lib also)
  --large-icons  Use large icons
  --thumbnails   Use thumbnails
  --iso-time     Display time in ISO format
  --exact        Perform exact match
  --hidden       Include hidden files
  --fulltext     Perform fulltext search
  --start        If path and query are provided, start searching when the
                 application is displayed.

And here is the commit:

Drop fileman and wrapper parameters, xdg-open is sufficient. Populate all version info from catfishconfig.py

What did the fileman parameter do?

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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Re: Catfish custom action no longer works

What did the fileman parameter do?

From this and other examples I see in a web search, it looks like it allowed the user to specify the file manager to be used. Just a guess...

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Magnus

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Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 51

Re: Catfish custom action no longer works

I changed the custom command to 'catfish %f' and it worked. Thanks.

Last edited by Magnus (2014-09-11 04:10:02)