Comments on: Mutt and GNOME MIME types

By: xim

xim — Thu, 19 May 2011 01:51:26 +0000

I wanted to do this, but noticed that gnomevfs.mime_get_default_application gives you the system default application i.e. it doesn't respect user preferences set in gnome.

Solution: gio.

>>> import gio
>>> gfile = gio.File(filename)
>>> gapp = gfile.query_default_handler()

That gives you the default app. The correct way to use it afterwards may be to use

>>> gapp.launch_uris([gfile.get_uri()])

but I'm not sure if you can make that blocking or not.

I have, however incorporated it into an old python script that has run-mailcap and then xdg-open as fallbacks. It's a bit ugly, but solid: https://gist.github.com/979990

By: Luca Invernizzi

Luca Invernizzi — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:19:46 +0000

It may be a stupid answer, but check if you have xdg-open installed. It uses the same mailcap files, but it does not fork.

By: andykirk

andykirk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:56:21 +0000

I hate the way mutt waits for you to finish viewing an attachment. A third option would be for your python script copy the temp file it is given, then spawn the real viewer on the copy and exit.

Thanks for the code BTW.

By: brinal

brinal — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:04:24 +0000

Thanks a ton. This is nice ! I simply added some mime-types i didn't want handled that way before that line and added image/*-types etc and off i go.

one thing i need to figure out now, is how to open multiple attachements when there tagged as in 2 pdfs at once...

thanks! brinal