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JoergMeyer

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Registered: 2016-05-16

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Ristretto -- File selection

Hello,

in Ristretto sometimes I want to browse through all files in a folder. And sometimes I only want to browse through a selection, say *.jpg only or dsc03*.* or whatever filename-based selection.

It would really improve usability of Ristretto for me if there was a way to apply a filter pattern to the preview panel (on the left).

I am using Ristretto 0.8.0 on Xubunto 16.04.

Thanks and all the best,
Jörg

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Ristretto -- File selection

Hello and welcome.

It would really improve usability of Ristretto for me if there was a way to apply a filter pattern to the preview panel (on the left).

You can if you start Ristretto from the command line like this:

ristretto ~/Pictures/*.jpg

...or:

ristretto ~/Pictures/dsc03*

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Ristretto -- File selection

Or, if you want a graphical solution, create a wrapper function using yad and a script like:

#!/bin/bash

cd ~/Pictures
if ANS=$(yad --center --width=350 --height=110 --form --title="Ristretto Wrapper" --field=Path:DIR "$DIR" --field="Search pattern:"); then

    PATT=`echo $ANS | awk -F "|" '{print $1"/"$2}'`

    echo "ANS  = $ANS"
    echo "PATT = $PATT"

    exec ristretto $PATT
fi

You can run the script manually, add it to a keyboard shortcut, or create a .desktop file for it so it shows up in your menu.

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