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On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:45:14PM +0100, Damian wrote: |
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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 asked a similar question a week or so back. |
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I searched in my mails but I couldn't find it. Sorry, I probably |
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didn't enter a relevant search string. |
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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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> xdg-open is just a shell script. If you are interested, take a look at |
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> less `which xdg-open` |
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> and you will be enlightened as to why it is a complete piece of crap |
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> unless you are using KDE, GNOME, or XFCE. (Hint, notice how nowhere in |
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> the script does it read whatever you modified with xdg-mime.) |
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> A possible way to work around it (depends on your application, which, |
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> in your case, is beagle, which I am not familiar with) is to go into |
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> the offending application that is calling xdg-open and see if you can |
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> configure MIME types in there yourself. The application that made me |
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> look this up, Jabref, does allow that configuration. Your mileage can |
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> of course vary. |
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Thanks Willie for your answer. |
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Sadly beagle-search doesn't offer any option. The developers must use |
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only gnome. |
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I guess I will have so find another beagle front end, or choose a |
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different desktop search engine. |
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> Cheers, |
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> W |
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> Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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> Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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> et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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