in reply to Open a folder

Do you really mean a file manager like dolphin or midnight commander? In that case you have to use system() to call them. They should allow a filename as parameter

Or are you asking about the file selector box? In that case although getOpenFile() writes "Open" somewhere into the box it just gives back a filename so you can do anything with it. You don't need to open it.

Googling also unearthed Tk::FileDialog on CPAN, maybe this is what you want

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Re^2: Open a folder
by jerre_111 (Sexton) on Mar 21, 2013 at 12:01 UTC

    Yes, I mean a file manager like that, I'm using the "thunar" file manager.

    But if i call them with "system()", I guess that on another pc without Thunar, nothing will happen? or worst case an error will appear?

    I don't want a file selector thank you. To say it in "windows words", I want to open explorer at the position where my new image is located.

    I already have the Path where the new image is located from a dialog box off getSaveFile(). So I want to say, open explorer at that path. But then in unix except windows.

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      So if you were using MS Windows I'd advise you to use something like start $directory, where $directory is the path you wish to open. Now depending on your window manager the equivalent method could be many things, for example for xfce xdg-open $directory, gnome-open $directory, kde-open $directory and so on. So you're going to have to figure out the details of the end user platform (unless this is for a specific target that you know about), and cater for each accordingly.

      Update: you may want to play around with the following basic example:

      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $wm = $ENV{'XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP'};
print "Window Manager: $wm";

# later on, call specific system command for the running window manage
+r

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        I'm using kde on opensuse and xdg-open works even in kde. So it might just suffice to check for availability of any of the mentioned programs and call it irrespective of the window manager actually running. It would probably be a 99% solution

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      So your problem is to find a suitable file manager on any linux box.

      It seems xdg-open will do what you want. On my machine it opens dolphin if I call "xdg-open ."

      There also might be methods to find standard applications in window managers like gnome or kde, but I'm just guessing. Probably they just use xdg-open too

      If nothing works you could have a list of filemanagers in your script that you simply check if they are installed.

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