Hi there!
I'm writing a PyGTK GUI application in Ubuntu to browse some images, and I'd like to open an image in the default image viewer application when it is double-clicked (like when it is opened in Nautilus).
How can I do it?
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A:
I don't know specifically using PyGTK but: xdg-open opens the default app for a file so running something like this should work:
import os
os.system('xdg-open ./img.jpg')
EDIT: I'd suggest using the subprocess module as in the comments. I'm not sure exactly how to use it yet so I just used os.system in the example to show xdg-open.
vlad003
2010-08-07 16:32:57
Works great, thanks!
mooware
2010-08-07 16:40:17
Useless use of `system`. This should be `subprocess.check_call(["xdg-open", filename])`.
Philipp
2010-08-07 16:46:16
Hi Philipp, what's wrong with using 'system'?
mooware
2010-08-07 16:58:27
The `subprocess` module is aimed at replacing older functions like `os.system`: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
vlad003
2010-08-07 21:57:21
+1
A:
GTK (>= 2.14) has gtk_show_uri:
gtk.show_uri(screen, uri, timestamp)
Example usage:
gtk.show_uri(None, "file:///etc/passwd", gtk.gdk.CURRENT_TIME)
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Bruce van der Kooij
2010-08-07 20:57:12