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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ranger.1 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ranger.pod | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ranger/ext/img_display.py | 7 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ranger.1 b/doc/ranger.1 index cc3c32bb..a8c70ad4 100644 --- a/doc/ranger.1 +++ b/doc/ranger.1 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "RANGER 1" -.TH RANGER 1 "ranger-1.6.0" "03/09/2013" "ranger manual" +.TH RANGER 1 "ranger-1.6.0" "03/24/2013" "ranger manual" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -1093,6 +1093,10 @@ statements. You will gain efficiency at the cost of losing some debug info. .Sp Using PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2 (like python \-OO) will additionally discard any docstrings. Using this will disable the <F1> key on commands. +.IP "W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH" 8 +.IX Item "W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH" +By changing this variable, you can change the path of the executable file for +image previews. By default, it is set to \fI/usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay\fR. .SH "EXAMPLES" .IX Header "EXAMPLES" There are various examples on how to extend ranger with plugins or combine diff --git a/doc/ranger.pod b/doc/ranger.pod index 10aa0186..ac9970c5 100644 --- a/doc/ranger.pod +++ b/doc/ranger.pod @@ -1176,6 +1176,11 @@ statements. You will gain efficiency at the cost of losing some debug info. Using PYTHONOPTIMIZE=2 (like python -OO) will additionally discard any docstrings. Using this will disable the <F1> key on commands. +=item W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH + +By changing this variable, you can change the path of the executable file for +image previews. By default, it is set to F</usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay>. + =back diff --git a/ranger/ext/img_display.py b/ranger/ext/img_display.py index 9f2fd316..b6f59f4f 100644 --- a/ranger/ext/img_display.py +++ b/ranger/ext/img_display.py @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ framebuffer) or in a Xorg session. w3m need to be installed for this to work. """ -import termios, fcntl, struct, sys +import termios, fcntl, struct, sys, os from subprocess import Popen, PIPE W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH = '/usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay' @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ def _get_font_dimensions(): def _w3mimgdisplay(commands): """Invoke w3mimgdisplay and send commands on its standard input.""" - process = Popen([W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH] + W3MIMGDISPLAY_OPTIONS, stdin=PIPE, + path = os.environ.get("W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH", None) + if not path: + path = W3MIMGDISPLAY_PATH + process = Popen([path] + W3MIMGDISPLAY_OPTIONS, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, universal_newlines=True) # wait for the external program to finish |