How to Rice Ranger

Pre-requisite

Run

ranger --copy-config=all

Most of the configurations are done inside ~/config/ranger directory

Showing borders

• search for set draw_borders none in rc.conf
• Set none to both or something like true

Colorschemes

• search for set colorscheme default in rc.conf
• Change default to something like solarized

Image preview

• Install ueberzug with yay -S ueberzug
• search for set preview_images false in rc conf
• change false to true
• scroll down and spot set preview_images_method w3m
• change w3m to ueberzug
• restart ranger and it should be working

Video thumbnail preview (requires Image preview working)

• sudo pacman -S ffmpegthumbnailer
• search forset preview_script ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh in rc.conf which should be commented out
• remove the comment
• search for video in scope.sh

156         ## Video
157          video/*)
158              # Thumbnail
159              ffmpegthumbnailer -i "${FILE_PATH}" -o "${IMAGE_CACHE_PATH}" -s 0 && exit 6
160              exit 1;;

These lines should be commented out. So remove those comments

• restart ranger and done.

PDF thumbnail preview (requires Image preview working)

• search forset preview_script ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh in rc.conf which should be commented out
• remove the comment
• search for application/pdf in scope.sh

162         ## PDF
163          application/pdf)
164              pdftoppm -f 1 -l 1 \
165                       -scale-to-x "${DEFAULT_SIZE%x*}" \
166                       -scale-to-y -1 \
167                       -singlefile \
168                       -jpeg -tiffcompression jpeg \
169                       -- "${FILE_PATH}" "${IMAGE_CACHE_PATH%.*}" \
170                  && exit 6 || exit 1;;

These lines should be commented out. So remove those comments

• restart ranger and done