Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

Summary

xdgctl is a TUI for managing XDG default applications. View and set defaults for file categories without using xdg-mime directly. Built with C using GLib/GIO and termbox2. xdgctl.mp4 Features Browse by category (Browsers, Text Editors, etc.) Current default marked with * Navigation & Controls Key Action Arrow Up/Down Navigate through categories or applications Arrow Right/Tab Switch from category list to application list Arrow Left Switch back to category list Enter Set selected application as default for current category Esc / q Quit the application Prerequisites To build xdgctl , you need the following development libraries: glib-2.0 gio-2.0 gio-unix-2.0 clang or gcc # On Void Linux sudo xbps-install glibc-devel Installation git clone https://github.com/mitjafelician/xdgctl.git cd xdgctl # Build make sudo make install # Using prefix sudo make PREFIX=/usr/local install make PREFIX= ~ /.local install If you manually add new applications to your ~/.local/share/applications directory, you might need to run update-desktop-database again. More about XDG Application directories ls /usr/share/applications ls ~ /.local/share/applications Querying defaults xdg-mime query default text/plain xdg-mime query default text/html xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https xdg-mime query default inode/directory Setting defaults manually xdg-mime default brave.desktop x-scheme-handler/http xdg-mime default brave.desktop x-scheme-handler/https Desktop Entry example # ~/.local/share/applications/brave.desktop [Desktop Entry] Exec =/home/m/Applications/brave Type =Application Categories =Applications Name =Brave Browser MimeType =text/html ; text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; Other useful commands/files update-desktop-database ~ /.local/share/applications less ~ /.config/mimeapps.list less /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list