Startup without selecting files

[gkuenning]

Feature request: When geeqie is started with a number of files on the command line, those files are automatically selected, so that if an external application is launched, all of them are passed to that application. In my usage pattern, that's undesirable (I often launch with hundreds or thousands of files at a time). Deselecting the files is also a bit clumsy because I also launch without all tools windows hidden. (It's not hugely difficult, though, since I can type ^H twice and the selection goes away.)

Anyway, it would be nice to have a --no-select option or (better for me) a similar setting in the config file. Looking at the code in main.c, it seems pretty easy to implement. So the question is, is this a feature that other people would want so that I should implement it when I have time, or am I an outlier?

[caclark]

If you go to Edit/Preferences/Keyboard and look for the action Select None you can set a keystroke for this action. Maybe that would be a more user-friendly way.

I have had vague ideas about making all the menu items available externally - maybe via lua - but that is unlikely to happen.

[Help/Keyboard Map will help you find a spare key combination]

[gkuenning]

Thanks; I'll close this. One suggestion: would it be easy to have geeqie --remote send an arbitrary keystroke? That could be very powerful. Admittedly this can be done with xdotool, but there are some advantages to having it built in.