On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:56:33PM -0800, Akkana wrote:
> Gary writes:
> > Does anyone have a good mailcap addition for viewing gif or png pics? I
> > would appreciate it.
>
> I use:
> image/gif; xv %s
> image/png; xv %s
>
> Unfortunately, this makes mutt wait for xv to exit, so I can't compare
> several images, or keep an image up while I read other mail. I've tried
> various combinations of adding & to the string, but haven't found one
> that makes mutt keep the tmp file around long enough for xv to see it.
> (I thought "xv - -name image.png &" would work, but it doesn't -- it
> apparently still depends on a temp file.)
I put this in my mailcap:
image/*; mutt_bgrun xv %s; test=RunningX
The script mutt_bgrun takes care of creating a temporary file and
putting the viewer in the background:
tmpfile=/tmp/$LOGNAME$$${2##*/}
cp $2 $tmpfile
(
$1 $tmpfile
rm -f $tmpfile
) &
> I've had the same "not waiting around long enough" problem with sending
> html messages to Netscape for viewing (as an alternate when they're too
> complicated to read with lynx). Has anyone found a trick to make mutt
> keep the tmp file around a little longer? It's not covered in the
> mailcap section of the mutt manual.
I do something similar for Netscape, putting this in my mailcap:
text/html; mutt_netscape %s; test=RunningX
and using a script, mutt_netscape, containing basically the following:
tmpfile=/tmp/$LOGNAME$$${1##*/}
cp $1 $tmpfile
netscape -remote "openURL(file:$tmpfile, new-window)" 2> /dev/null ||
netscape $tmpfile
The netscape command returns immediately, so there's no way to know when
it's done with the file. I have a cron job that periodically cleans out
my old files from /tmp, so I haven't worried about it.
--
Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RF Communications Product Generation Unit
| Spokane, Washington, USA
