Leif Halvard Silli
Den 2022-11-09 09:56 skreiv Hussein Shafie:
On 11/8/22 20:32, Leif H Silli wrote:
I discovered a simple workaround ... In the Helper Apps section of the
Preferences, the command
open "%U”
is (by default) defined as the «Default viewer» (strange terminology
btw).
And it turns out that, for the PDF file type, if you replace
open -W -n -a /System/Applications/Preview.app "%F"
with the «Default viewer» command
open "%U”
then I get the behavior that I want: PDFs gets opend by your default
PDF-viewer (typically the Preview.app on MacOS), and you also avoid
that a new instance of your default PDF-viewer is opened each time you
click the fil in XXE’s Browse Files tool.
Thank you for this information.
The advantage of using
open "%U”
is that the user can use the MacOS Finder to decide which app that
should open a certain file type. (This is done via the Show info panel
for particular files in the Finder.) But this might also be the
disadvantage.
If you want to not rely on the Finder, then another workaround is to
simply remove the «-n» from
open -W -n -a /System/Applications/Preview.app "%F"
so that we get
open -W -a /System/Applications/Preview.app "%F"
By removing the «-n», we avoid that a new instance is opened every time
the command is run … See https://ss64.com/osx/open.html
(I do not know whether the «open» is a MacOS only command of if it also
runs on Linux and more.)
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Leif Halvard Silli
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