Seriously can NOTHING be done about ImageMagick?

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I have just spent the last three hours trying to figure out how to at least…since I was advised not to DELETE the damned thing (honestly, why not? It’s not like this particular VM is ever going to be sent a qvm-open-in-dvm)…get ImageMagick to not be the default viewer for images.

It CHOKES on my photographs; they are large files. And if I forget and double click them, I have to move the window off my screen (it covers the whole thing), open an Xterm in that qube, do a ps -flea to learn the process number, and kill it…I can’t shut it down; it’s too busy choking on a 45 MP file). It’s the worst piece of software I have to use right now. (It’s likely great for some 600KB thing downloaded off the internet; it serves that role admirably for the target of “open this anthrax-soaked file in dvm.”)

Yes I know I can theoretically issue xdg-mime commands, but this is in a disposable. I don’t want to have to do that every single time. I tried putting a script in the ./config/autostart_scripts directory in my DVM template (and it’s there so I put it in the right place), but apparently it didn’t execute.

I’m about ready to change the thunar desktop to point to a script that does the reassignments then actually opens thunar. But that’s clumsy. Can’t I just get rid of the damned thing? On ONE VM that will never be invoked from another VM? (Where IS it, anyway?)

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Do it in the template

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And another option was suggested to you: Default applications by file type/cant get rid of ImageMagick - #3 by unman

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The .config/autostart file that you suggested in the first thread you linked to? Doesn’t actually execute. I can start my disposable, I can go look and see the file is there (meaning I didn’t put it in the disposable, or in the TemplateVM, but rather in the DVM template)…but I put in a “touch” command to see if it ran and for some reason what I set gets overridden afterwords, or whether it just doesn’t run. It doesn’t run.

I suspect that’s something that doesn’t work in Debian. (I know I successfully use autostart or rather autostart-scripts in dom0. I tried both directories here.)

THIS: Default applications by file type/cant get rid of ImageMagick - #5 by otz actually worked. (Now I get to clean all the other crap out of my salt files, do this instead, regenerate TemplateVM, DVM-template, and named DVM, and hope it still works!)

BTW having the thunar desktop file point to a script that made the changes then brought up Thunar would probably have worked. Except that thunar was actually being brought up by “File Manager” which bypassed that particular kludge.

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You should select it as a solution so it could help others. I hate ImageMagick myself too!

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There’s no checkbox there on that thread. But I can select it here, and just did.

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Yep, it’s because in guides section probably. Thanks.

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I moved it to Support. You can try now.

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