On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:41:49PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > > I've recently converted grandma's pc and everything has been a big > success. The only issue I can't solve is getting a double click in gmc > to open applicable documents with staroffice. > > running woody, 2.4.17. > > I have tried the following: > > 1. adding appropriate lines in .mailcap and /etc/mailcap. Apparently > gmc pays no attention to these. > > 2. adding appropriate lines to /usr/share/mime-info/mc.keys. No luck > there. > > 3. using gnome control center -> document handlers -> file types and > programs. Using this I can get gmc to display the correct icons, but > using a command like '/usr/local/staroffice6.0/program/soffice %f' fails > because gmc only passes the filename and staroffice expects the full > path. > > If I am missing something obvious please let me know. Otherwise, the > only way to get it to work may be edit the soffice launching script so > that it doesn't change the working directory. > > g
See this thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=20011008102435.A15271%40home.com&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dxanim%2Bgmc%2Bdebian%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch This person's solution was to create a soft link: ln -s acroread /usr/bin/xpdf Maybe you can do similar? John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ "I have thought all there is to think", -anonymous _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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