Questions tagged [ranger]
Ranger is a terminal-based file manager with vi-style key bindings.
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Ranger: custom file sorting (dotfiles at the end of listing)
I am using ranger as cli file manager. I would love to order files in this way:
Folders alphabetically
Files alphabetically
Folders starting with . alphabetically
Files starting with . alphabetically
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Exit terminal left behind by Ranger
When using Ranger and opening a pdf file it leaves a useless terminal behind. Any suggestions for how to exit Ranger/the terminal after opening the pdf?
I've tried going into rifle.conf and editing ...
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Alacritty Ranger w3m: Images are not showing or disappear after few seconds
I am using Alacritty and ranger. I have also installed w3m.
This is part of my ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf:
set preview_images true
set preview_images_method w3m
set w3m_offset 0
Most of the time images ...
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Ranger image preview not working in URXVT running Fish shell until I open an image in Feh
I recently started using the Fish shell, and after opening a new URXVT instance I cannot get image previews in Ranger until I open an image first (using feh, in my case). Once an image has been opened ...
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Ranger: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ranger'
I have ranger on Arch linux. When I try to run it throws error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ranger", line 35, in <module>
import ranger # NOQA pylint: ...
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Recovering a deleted folder using testdisk: Folder doesn't show up
So I accidentally deleted my documents folder (using ranger) which included all of my important files that weren't dotfiles. So I found testdisk. How I've used it so far is how I've seen people use it ...
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How to have ranger for linux open up files that are images or videos?
I'm a complete noob to sudo commands or even bash but I have no direction in how to start opening files with ranger. Barely experience with linux, but I do know how to install using sudo apt install. ...
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strange situation when running ranger as: “terminal -e ranger”
when I open ranger in the terminal as: ranger, everything is Ok. However, when I open it for example as: alacritty -e ranger the strange situation happens (1st figure). for fixing it i have to ...
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Ranger key mapping move multiple selected file and move without enter the return key
I want to fast move things to different folder here is my mapping
map mh shell -f mv %f /home/sln
map mw shell -f mv %f /home/sln/Work
map md shell -f mv %f /home/sln/Documents
map mk shell -f mv %f /...
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ranger file explorer — how to change the font (ie, to this linked example)
My question: how do I change the font in Ranger?
The custom colorscheme files I have downloaded don’t seem to ‘include’ their font (ie, see this one from this theme)?
I suspect it may involve ...
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ranger: how to disable the preview column entirely
My question: How to turn off the preview-column (right-most column in ranger) entirely?
I can’t use the solution set column_ratio 1, since I want > 1 columns for showing as parent directories.
In ...
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ranger file explorer: how to change into 2 panes at most (for vertically narrow console)
I’ve scanned the ? commands inside ranger as well as some cheat sheets people made online, but to no avail.
How do I change ranger to only use 2 panes (or less)? I don’t mind getting rid of the ...
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Neomutt run command to attach file on macro key press
I'm trying to use ranger to attach files to a mail in NeoMutt. What I have so far is
Run ranger to select the file to attach and save its name to /tmp/muttattach with
ranger --choosefile=/tmp/...
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Ranger: How can I yank the selected files from commands.py?
I copied this snipped from the arch wiki. But instead of extracting the selected files, it extracts the yanked files. So I'd like to know one of this two things:
How can I make extract_here using the ...
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Can't login to MX linux, possible Xsessions issue after typing 'startx' into terminal
Preface: Ages ago I wanted to try DWM, but the only way I could get it to work was by writing exec DWM in the /etc/X11 folder.
But when stopped using DWM I left all the places I also wrote that in ~/ ...
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Opening an interactive terminal from ranger
Let's say I want to open xfce4-terminal from ranger with a keybind, like
map XX shell myterm
Is it possible? How?
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XFCE keyboard shortcut for Ranger file manager launcher won't work
So I made a .desktop launcher for the ranger.py script (the command is './ranger.py' or python 'ranger.py' and the working directory is where the ranger.py script is). Ienter image description here ...
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What package do I need to install to get video-previews in Debian's ranger?
What package does Ranger require to generate video-image previews in Debian? I'm using the ranger from apt and when I try to view a video's thumbnail I get,
Image previews in kitty require PIL (...
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How to send key bind occupied/interpreted by tmux to program running in tmux?
Let's say I'm running ranger inside tmux session, but I want to send a keyboard shortcut to ranger (e.g. Ctrl+H) which is already used in tmux.
Is there a passthrough mode to send key binding to ...
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Copy any kind of file to clipboard with xclip
So, I want to be able to copy any kind of file to an X clipboard with a shell script (mostly as a means to copy files in ranger, to gui applications).
So far i have this script:
TYPE=$(file -b --mime-...
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Search and select all matching files in Ranger
Say that I have the following files in the current directory :
aa01.txt
aa02.txt
bb01.txt
bb02.txt
cc01.txt
...
Is there a way I can search for a given pattern and select ALL the matching files at ...
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Check if I'm in a shell through ranger
In ranger, you can hit S to jump into a shell and ctrl+D to get back to ranger.
When I've been in a shell for a while and I want to jump to ranger, I'm unsure if this is a regular shell and I should ...
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Recovering mutt attachment filenames
I have a small mutt macro to save attachments using my file manager (ranger, as it happens). It looks like this:
macro attach S "<pipe-message>muttsaveattach"<enter>
where ...
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Pass multiple directories to be opened by ranger in single instance?
Is there some way I can pass a "list" of unrelated directories for example:
/tmp/
/home/chris
/home/chris/example
Into ranger's interface? Similar to what can be done with ls with the -d argument.
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Remove the leftmost column from ranger file manager
There is a way I can remove the rightmost column:
# Preview files on the rightmost column?
# And collapse (shrink) the last column if there is nothing to preview?
set preview_files false
set ...
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Ranger - cd into nth folder
I found the command I want to use: cd $(ls -d */|head -n 1) and it works as expected when I do it in the terminal. However when I map it in ranger (either with map g1 cd... or map g1 shell cd...) I ...
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Ranger Run Custom .bash_profile Command
Suppose I have the following in my ~/.bash_profile file:
function lazygit() {
git add .
git commit -a -m "$1"
git push
}
I have run source .bash_profile and it works well in terminal on ...
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Ranger: How to Remap hjkl Keys?
I using Ranger and I am a Colemak Keyboard Layout user. I want to remap the h, j, k, and l keys to n, u, e, i keys. I tried this: issue #8 and Ranger doesn't seem to read from ~/.config/ranger/keys.py....
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jump to a directory inside of ranger
I tried :cd path but it does literally nothing.
Imagine I open ranger while inside of ~/dir/, now I want to go to ~/somewhere/else/ while inside of ranger.
I know I can hjjjj(whatever)lj/k(whatever)...
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Use ranger as my default file manager in i3wm
When download a file via browser, the download status message box has an option named show in folder, How can I configure it to open ranger when I click it?
Reason I want to do it:
I'm currently ...
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Ranger: Add Foxit pdf reader to rifle.conf
I've Zathura as my default pdf viewer which is fine. I've also installed Foxit Reader but it doesn't show up when I try to open any pdf file in ranger with r key. I tried adding following line in my ...
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ranger “set preview_files true” does not work
Since quite some time the file-preview-window in ranger stays empty.
I.e. it indeed shows up but does not preview the content of text-files.
Image preview and .pdf preview however does work.
The ...
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How to create multiple directories in Ranger?
As in the equivalent of mkdir dir1 dir2 when running in bash. This creates two separate directories, dir1 and dir2.
If you run :mkdir dir1 dir2 in ranger, it simply creates a directory called 'dir1 ...
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How do you go back to the previous directory in Ranger?
In Ranger you can go to a directory with g. When you type g it gives you a list of places you can very easily go. For example g, and then p takes me to /tmp. How do I get back to the directory I was ...
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How do I delete a single file without affecting the marked files in ranger?
As a follow up to this question, how do I delete a single file without losing the selection that I've already got?
for i in $(seq 1 5); do touch "$i.jpg"; done;
mkdir subdir
Let's say you marked 1....
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Batch moving a custom set of images with Ranger? [duplicate]
This is a question for the Ranger (file manager)
Let's say that I have a directory with five files..
for i in $(seq 1 5); do touch "$i.jpg"; done;
mkdir subdir
How would I move 1.jpg, and 4.jpg, ...
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Where is the editor choice kept in ranger?
On a fresh ranger install I tried to open neofetch config with ranger and selected ed to see what is it. I am glad Ctrl+D worked to exit the ed, but now ranger opens all files with it. Restarting ...
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How to change relative symlinked path to “actual” one (in ranger or terminal)
What is actual path? Consider folder A in the file system and a symlinked B to it. Consider currently in ranger (or terminal) inside a sub-directory within B such as /home/B/sub1/sub2 which is in fact ...
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How can I view current file only instead of all marked files in ranger?
In the ranger file manager, https://github.com/ranger/ranger, how can I open the currently selected file instead of all marked files?
I'd like to iterate through a directory and choose whether I mark ...
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Ranger will not preview images or text
I have tried sudo apt-get purge ranger and then reinstalling it, but I have not been able to find anything that works. My python version is 2.7.
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How to bind a keyboard shortcut in zsh to a program requiring stdin?
This is a follow-up to this question: I'm trying to create a keyboard shortcut for the terminal file manager ranger, in order to jump from the zsh prompt into the file manager with a single keystroke. ...
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Ranger, open file freeze the terminal
I set Viewnior for open image files, but when I open any image file (jpg or png) ranger stays frozen or something similar, and I only can return to ranger when I close the app that opened the file. ...
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How to “follow” symlink in Ranger to open containing directory of target?
In Ranger, I often have symlink and I want to go to the containing directory of the file that is linked to. How to do this with Ranger?
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Atom crashes after closing the file manager ranger
When I open a file with atom through ranger and than close the terminal which executes ranger, it causes the atom editor to close too, my configuration file looks like:
user@computer ~ $ cat ~/....
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Default application used for “open folder” in popup menu
When I enter, for instance, xdg-mime query filetype Video/movie.mkv, the output is video/x-matroska; if I then enter xdg-mime query default video/x-matroska, the output is mplayer.desktop, and that is ...
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xmodmap key bindings reset when I open a new tab in the shell
When I open a shell in ranger with shift-s, open vim and then open a shell with :sh or open a new shell tab with ctrl-shift-t, my xmodmap keybindings (swapped caps lock and escape keys) are reset. ...
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Refresh cache of Ranger file manager
How do I refresh ranger file manager? It automatically refreshes if a file is changed/edited/created/removed inside current directory, but I want to be able to force it to do so. How would I do that?
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How to enable syntax highlighting in ranger preview?
I have seen some screenshots where ranger uses syntax-highlighting in its preview window. So I was wondering how to enable this feature and found out that I need the scope.sh file in the directory
/...
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Preview files in ranger
I have been able to preview images in ranger. But for some reason I don't have file preview. Not for any type of files. Not for compressed files either. I'm running linux mint and ranger v1.7.1. How ...
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Is there a way to get ranger to syntax-highlight files using the X colorscheme of the terminal?
The file manager ranger works great, and uses the normal X resources color scheme of my terminal (urxvt). But when it shows a preview of files and highlights their syntax (presumably using highlight ...
