MComix's External Commands

MComix can run a list of user-defined commands on the currently opened file/directory/archive. This might include external image viewers, file management tools or custom shell scripts.


Mcomix

MComix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer, created from a fork of the Comix project. It is specifically designed to handle comic books (both Western comics and manga) and supports a variety of container formats (including CBR, CBZ, CB7, CBT, LHA and PDF). It is written in Python using GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings, and runs on both Linux and Windows.source

The program doesn’t have enough functionalities, so they allow the user to define a list of external commands that can be executed at will (and it’s a very powerful functionality itself).

Execute external programs

MComix can run a list of user-defined commands on the currently opened file/directory/archive. This might include external image viewers, file management tools or custom shell scripts. For this specific guide, we will use GIMP.

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