xdg-termfilechooser-bridge

The bridge between xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser and your favorite terminal based filepicker

Installation

Install the application

via cargo

$ cargo install xdg-termfilechooser-bridge

Setup xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser

Edit $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser/config

[filechooser]
cmd = /path/to/xdg-termfilechooser-bridge
default_dir = $HOME

Configuration

Edit $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xdg-termfilechooser-bridge/config.toml

terminal = "ghostty"
filepicker = "yazi"
start_at_last_selected_dir = true

Supported file pickers

• yazi

If your favorite terminal filepicker isn't available feel free to add it yourself or open an issue with the required invoke parameters.

Supported terminals

• ghostty
• kitty

If your favorite terminal isn't available feel free to add it yourself or open an issue with the required invoke parameters.

Motivation

The default script of xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser has had several issues in the past and beyond these I wanted to customize the behaviour of it further so I wrote a tool to do so.

License

GPLv3