Set Gimp as External Editor for Images
I used to be able to use "Open in External Editor" to open images in Gimp, but something in my environment has changed so that it now uses the Mac OS Preview app instead. I'm unable to find where that association may be set. I've added Gimp as an External Editor, but there doesn't seem to be a way to associate it with images. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Hi there,
Please check "Settings/Preferences | Editor | File Types" -- there is "Files Opened in Associated Applications" or similarly named entry -- try adding your patterns there.
I have the same problem on Linux, where Intellij used to (2020.1) open the GIMP editor for PNG files, but now (2020.3) opens the completely useless Xviewer app. Looking in Settings -> File Types, .png files are already associated with the Image file type, but I see nowhere at all in settings where I can actually switch the external editor for images back to GIMP.
There is no "Files Opened in Associated Applications" or anything similarly named in the File Types window. I see "Associate File Type with Intellij IDEA..." but that isn't useful.
Not sure what the rationale behind this change was, but this is a major regression in functionality, IMHO.
@Des Herriott
If you are referring to External Editor then please see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-242254#focus=Comments-27-4503202.0-0 for a comment on how you can manually workaround this.
As mentioned in the next comment there, that functionality has now dropped (I do not see it working any more in 2020.3.1 here on my PC). But you can manually create an External Tools entry for that and assign any custom shortcut you wish.
Sure thing. I wonder what this is:
Please note that this will open a file on Double Click in whatever the association is in your OS (so you need to make sure that your PNG files are opened with GIMP on double click even in your OS).
Overall, if you want to be able to open images files inside the IDE (full size preview/open in a tab) + have XnView to keep opening them on double click in your OS (in other words: keep it all on current defaults) ... then the best would be manually setting up the External Tools entry just for your GIMP: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/configuring-third-party-tools.html