Vifmimg as a filepicker about vifmimg HOT 6 CLOSED

You can execute Ex command after vifm starts:

vifmrun --choose-file=picked_file -c ':view'

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I don't think that fixes my problem or maybe I misunderstood your reply. I'm not sure I worded the issue as well as I could have, so here are some pictures. To simplify the issue I'll drop the argument --choose-file= as the behaviour is present without it.

When running the vifmrun everything works as expected:

However when launching urxvt -e vifmrun (from the left terminal window) the preview pops up in the wrong terminal window:

When using a graphical browser the preview doesn't appear at all as there is no parent terminal open.

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Everything works for me correctly, the preview appears in the child
window, even if I run urxvt -e vifmrun from another urxvt.

Perhaps you have an old version of vifmimg or ueberzug?

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As I checked the versions I realized I was using tmux in the terminal. I checked the issue with urxvt without tmux and vifmimg works correctly in the child window. I used the latest version of vifmimg and ueberzug 18.1.9-2 from the arch linux repos.

However the problem for my usecase persists. As with tmux the previews aren't shown when using a browser (in my case qutebrowser). Using the browser the preview area displays the error (I should have mentioned this in my initial post):

/usr/bin/vifmimg: line 9: No such file or directory

This error refers to the line:

printf '{"action": "add", "identifier": "vifm-preview", "x": "%s", "y": "%s", "width": "%s", "height": "%s", "scaler": "contain", "path": "%s"}\n' "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" > "$FIFO_UEBERZUG"

Where the arguments are (to my understanding) passed from vifmrc:

...
fileviewer *.pdf
    \ vifmimg pdf %px %py %pw %ph %c
    \ %pc
    \ vifmimg clear
...

So it would seem that for some reason vifm doesn't pass the filename to vifmimg. I'm not sure if this is the same issue as with tmux.

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How do you use vifm and qutebrowser together? Launches one from another?

You need to play it all and see environment variable the FIFO_UEBERZUG value
for vifmrun and others child processes (with htop, for example). Then stat the
resulting path to check it presence. Perhaps you do not have any of the intermediate
directories.

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Thank you for swift responses @PRESFIL. Yeah qutebrowser launches the urxvt -e vifmrun --choose-files=picked_file command. However fidgeting with ueberzug, vifm and vifmimg seems to have solved the issue, but I have no idea what did it. A bit of a letdown. Sorry.

However the issue with tmux remains when running urxvt -e vifmrun as the pictures in the previous post show. Although interesting on it's own my original issue is now solved.

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