←Open file with gpicker and mlocate
gpicker is a convenient tool for selecting files. Yesterday I remembered that it supports the gathering of data from the mlocate database and decided to setup a convenient opening files from the mlocate database using gpicker and gnome-open
. To start you need to know where the base mlocate in your system. The path can be found on the man page locate(1)
or via a call locate -h
:
$ locate -h | grep "\.db"
/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db)
This is enough to bring all together:
$ gnome-open `gpicker -t mlocate --eat-prefix="" /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db`
Option --eat-prefix
means strip prefix to make paths relative.
It remains only to set up a hotkey in metacity (e.g. via gconftool-2(1)):
$ gconftool-2 --search-key-regex run_command_\\d+
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_1 = <Super>c
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_2 = <Super>f
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_3 = <Super>s
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_4 = <Super>x
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_5 = <Super>d
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_6 = <Super>v
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_7 = <Super>a
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_8 = disabled
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_10 = disabled
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_11 = disabled
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_12 = disabled
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_9 = disabled
Choose free number and assign it to the command and hot-key.
$ gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_10 '<Super>g'
$ gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_10 'sh -c "gnome-open `gpicker -t mlocate --eat-prefix="" /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db`"'
Also you can create local mlocate database for particular directory:
$ updatedb -o mlocate.db -U .
$ gpicker -t mlocate mlocate.db
To use mlocate you need to install gpicker 2.1 (tarball, deb-i386, deb-amd64)