[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

(Course, I do have to manually setup a lot of xdg-open file associations. Archlinux, you see. )

Just FYI, a handy trick I use is to create my own ~/bin/xdg-open much nicer than having to configure file associations, for the crazy xdg-utils. This allows me to do fun things like change the virtual desktop to the desktop I use for my web-browser when opening http links and to create associations for every file type I use in just a few lines of code.

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import,
                        print_function)

__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2013, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'

BROWSER = 'firefox'
PDF = 'okular'
EBOOK = 'ebook-viewer'
EDITOR = ('gvim', '-f')
IMAGE = 'gwenview'
OFFICE = ('libreoffice', '--nologo')
DIRECTORY = 'dolphin'
COMIC = 'okular'
ARCHIVE = 'ark'

import os
import sys
import mimetypes
import urlparse
import subprocess
import urllib

arg = sys.argv[-1]
base = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
custom_mimetypes = os.path.join(base, 'conf/mime.types')
url = urlparse.urlparse(arg)


def call(args, path):
    if isinstance(args, basestring):
        args = [args]
    raise SystemExit(subprocess.Popen(list(args) + [path]).wait())

if url.scheme in {'http', 'https', 'ftp'}:
    from libqtile.command import Client
    c = Client()
    if c.group.info()['name'] != '2':
        c.screen.togglegroup('2')
    call(BROWSER, arg)

if url.scheme in {'file', ''}:
    path = url.path
    if path and not os.path.exists(path):
        path = urllib.unquote(path)

    ext = path.rpartition('.')[-1] if path else ''

    if not path or not os.path.exists(path):
        print (path, 'does not exist')
        raise SystemExit(1)

    if os.path.isdir(path):
        call(DIRECTORY, path)

    if ext in {'epub', 'mobi', 'azw', 'azw3', 'fb2', 'lrf', 'pdb', 'prc', 'lit', 'txtz', 'htmlz'}:
        call(EBOOK, path)

    if ext == 'pdf':
        call(PDF, path)

    if ext in {'cbz', 'cbr'}:
        call(COMIC, path)

    if ext in {'gz', 'bz2', 'xz', 'txz', 'tgz', 'tbz2', 'rar', '7z'}:
        call(ARCHIVE, path)

    if ext in {'opf', 'xml', 'html', 'htm', 'xhtm', 'xhtml', 'zip'}:
        call(EDITOR, path)

    mimetypes.init(mimetypes.knownfiles + [custom_mimetypes])

    mt = mimetypes.guess_type(path)[0]
    if mt:
        if mt.startswith('text/'):
            call(EDITOR,  path)
        if mt.startswith('image/'):
            call(IMAGE, path)
        if mt.startswith('application/vnd.openxmlformats.') or mt.startswith('application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.'):
            call(OFFICE, path)
        for x in {'application/msword', 'application/vnd.ms-'}:
            call(OFFICE, path)