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Hello, |
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I don't consider myself a smart person. Even my mom used to say that I |
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wasn't so bright. But still, should this be so damn difficult? |
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'beagle-search' is a front end for the beagle desktop search engine. |
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When you issue a query, the application shows you icons (which |
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represent files) with the result of the query. If you click on the |
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icon, the file will be opened with the default application. The |
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problem is that I cannot set the default application by any means. For |
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instance I would like to open jpeg image files using geeqie. |
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I've failed miserably in trying to associate filetypes to |
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applications, using beagle search. The application beagle-search uses |
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xdg-open to open applications. If a filetype has no application |
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associated, then the default handler is firefox (don't ask me why). |
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So I tried to see how xdg-open works, but the man page didn't give me |
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any useful information. The related command, xdg-mime, doesn't work as |
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I expected. |
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I've created a file called geeqie.desktop in the directory |
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/home/damian/.local/share/applications with the following contents: |
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[Desktop Entry] |
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Encoding=UTF-8 |
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Name=Geeqie |
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Exec=geeqie |
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MimeType=image/jpeg |
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Icon=exec |
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NoDisplay=true |
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Then I've tried to associate geeqie with jpeg files by running: |
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xdg-mime default geeqie.desktop image/jpeg |
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The command terminates successfully, and after running |
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xdg-mime query default image/jpeg |
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I get as output "geeqie.desktop". |
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But xdg-open (and therefore beagle-search) still refuses to open jpeg |
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images with geeqie. |
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Any ideas? |
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Thanks in advance. |