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How to "Open Containing Folder" with ranger?
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cp /usr/share/applications/ranger.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/ranger.desktop

nvim ~/.local/share/applications/ranger.desktop

Change these parameters to the respective values

Terminal=false
Exec=alacritty -e ranger

Then, make sure you have ranger.desktop as your default for inode/directory using xdg-mime.

xdg-mime default ranger.desktop inode/directory

Lastly! run:

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
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