Yazi as Default File Viewer on mac os

[Sinled]

Is it possible? GUI file managers such as Forklift, allows you to replace Finder as system wide file manager on mac os, so it can be used in places where finder is usually opened. e.g. opening folders on desktop, dock, from spotlight etc.

[sxyazi]

I’m not really sure if this is possible, but Yazi is a terminal program, so it can't run independently outside of the terminal environment.

So what you actually want to focus on might be: how to set your terminal to replace Finder and have Yazi run by default when the terminal starts

[Sinled]

So if anyone stumbles upon this, you can make it work. Here what i did with iTerm

1. Find terminal bundle intendifier mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier /Applications/YourApp.app for iterm it is com.googlecode.iterm2
2. Set iterm as default file viewer

defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.googlecode.iterm2;
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType="public.folder";LSHandlerRoleAll="com.googlecode.iterm2";}'

3. Restart system
4. Run yazi on iterm session start (I am using iTerm exclusively for yazi) Profile > Command > send text at start

you can return default file viewer with

defaults delete -g NSFileViewer
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType="public.folder";LSHandlerRoleAll="com.apple.finder";}'