[gentoo-user] Re: Konqueror-OOo odd behaviour when loading docs from USB stick

[Mick]

On Monday 25 September 2006 22:41, Mick wrote:
> I am trying to open some documents on a USB CF.  When I click on the
> document name in Konqueror OOo launches with its splash screen and progress
> bar, and then nothing else happens.  Once the progress bar completes,
> there's nothing more happening.
>
> To troubleshoot this problem I started the application from a terminal.
> Then I noticed that the document name had spaces in it, which I enclosed in
> single quotes.  OOo writer launched without any problem and loaded the
> document.
>
> Why is it that through Konqueror OOo trips over itself, but loading it
> through the CLI works fine?  How does Konqueror call OOo and how does it
> treat file names with spaces in them?

OK I looked a bit more into it.  It's something to do with Konqueror, or the 
way my USB stick is being mounted.  Documents on the USB stick will not open 
when I click on them in Konqueror.  Documents on the hard drive open 
happily.  Why is that?

I have no problem opening the docs on the USB stick, via the Open popup from 
the oowriter menu.

This is the case irrespective of running hald and dbus.

The entry in my fstab is:
==================================================================
/dev/sda    /mnt/sda    auto,vfat,msdos   noauto,user,noatime  0 0
/dev/sda1   /mnt/sda1   auto,vfat,msdos   noauto,user,noatime  0 0
==================================================================

to cater for my different usb sticks and the way they are recognised by the 
system.
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Regards,
Mick