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1 root 1.1 =head1 GTK+ BASH FILE CHOOSER
2    
3     B<gtkbfc> is a hack that replaces the dreaded, slow and hard-to-use GTK+
4     file chooser by a rxvt-unicode window with a little script that you to use
5     readline tab-completion to enter filenames.
6    
7     Again, its a dire hack and will not work with all programs. It does work
8     for gimp, firefox, gedit at least, though.
9    
10     =head2 INSTALLATION
11    
12     Install rxvt-unicode. Then copy the F<gtkbfc-helper> to F</etc/> and make
13     sure its executable and opens a window where you can enter a filename when
14     executed as F</etc/gtkbfc-helper>, which will then be echod to stdout.
15    
16     Then run F<make>, this will create a F<gtkbfc.so> shared object. You
17     have to specify this shared object as LD_PRELOAD when running gtk
18     programs. Either manually:
19    
20     LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/gtkbfc.so gimp
21    
22     Via an alias:
23    
24     alias gimp='LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/gtkbfc.so gimp'
25    
26     Or by putting it into your F</etc/ld.so.preload> (not really recommended
27     for performance reasons).
28    
29     =head2 AUTHOR
30    
31     Marc Lehmann <gtkbfc@schmorp.de>.