bottles-opener/README.md

bottles-opener

Double-click a file and it opens in its Windows program.

FL Studio, Office, Photoshop, Ableton and anything else you run in Bottles.

Install | How to use | Report a bug

Install

yay -S bottles-opener

How to use

bottles-opener

Press 1. Your files ✨just open✨ in their program, like on Windows.

File types

3 lists every file type. Space switches between:

double-click	Opens it in the program
Open With	Only listed in the right-click menu (when another app already opens it)

Your own file types: bottles-opener add flp,fst "FL Studio"

More

How it works

File types	Read from the bottle's registry, like Windows does. Known programs without entries come from a built-in list.
Icons	The ones Windows shows, taken from the program.
Opening	With the Windows path and the program's own switches, through bottles-cli.
Undo	bottles-opener disable puts back exactly what was there.

Bottles 67 has file associations too, but it refuses extensions your system does not know (like .flp), passes Linux paths and leaves the icons alone.

Commands

bottles-opener	The menu
… enable	Turn on
… disable	Undo everything
… apply	Pick up new programs
… status	What is set up
… list	All file types and what opens them
… programs	All programs and their file types
… add <ext,...> <program> [bottle]	Open file types with a program
… remove <ext,...> [program]	Stop opening file types

Build from source

make
sudo make install
bottles-opener enable

make install PREFIX=~/.local works without root.

GPL-3.0-or-later.