Re: FVWM: Document mime type compliance?

Domink,
Thank you! Your answer suggestion did the trick, in combination with
reading the man page. It is now working the way that I wanted.
For those reading this later 
the correct lines added to the default config were

# Function: FvwmMenuDirectory
DestroyFunc FuncFvwmMenuDirectory
AddToFunc FuncFvwmMenuDirectory
+ I PipeRead '/usr/bin/fvwm-menu-directory --title "%d" --dir "$0" 
  --exec-file "^xdg-open" --links'
(This was all on one line, sorry about the wrap line at 72 characters.)

Then of course I had to add to the # Root Menu a line 
+ "Documents%icons/documents.png%" Popup DOCMenu

And finally a new menu
# Generate DOCMenu
AddToMenu DocMenu
+ MIssingSubmenuFunction FuncFvwmMenuDirectory
+ "Documents" Popup /home/brian/Documents

HTH someone else
Cheers
BrianA_MN
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 00:57:37 +0100
Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:04:49PM -0600, Brian wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for replying.  The following is the functions called, so not
> > the one you reference.
> >
> > #Function FvwmMenuDirectory
> > DestroyFunc FuncFvwmMenuDirectory
> > AddToFunction FuncFvwmMenuDirectory
> > + I PipeRead '/usr/bin/fvwm-menu-directory --title "%d" --dir "$0"'
> >
> > Which as I said makes a Documents directory directly in the main
> > menu and then displays the files and directories as if they were a
> > submenu of "Documents".
> >
> > The trouble I run into is that every file clicked on opens in vi,
> > directories open the next level down directory, and what I need is
> > for the files to open according to the mime type with the proper
> > application.
> >
> > Dominik,
> > The man page suggest that you and Mikhael originally wrote this
> > little script.  Is there a config I've forgotten so that files will
> > properly open by mime type?  
> 
> It is really just a showcase for generating menus on the fly.  Any
> additional logic like opening files needs to be done outside fvwm.
> It was never intended to integrate a general file handler into
> fvwm.
> 
> > For example I see in the man for fvwm-menu-directory a --exec-app
> > [command] which maybe means I need to include the app to run on a
> > file, but would that work for each mime type?  Maybe there is
> > another FvwmFunction which needs to be referenced to add mime type
> > calls? Maybe I'm using the wrong function even?  
> 
> Looking at the --help output, I imagine that the option
> --exec-file=xdg-open should do what you want.  (xdg-open starts
> the application defined by the mime type with the given file;
> don't ask me about syntax details.)
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Dominik ^_^  ^_^
> 
> --
> 
> Dominik Vogt
>