>>>>> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
José> and the package (small) José> http://portland.freedesktop.org/download/xdg-utils-1.0beta3.tgz So basically, the script detects desktop environment like this: detectDE() { if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then DE=kde; elif [ x"$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" != x"" ]; then DE=gnome; elif xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE | grep ' = \"xfce4\"$' >/dev/null 2>&1; then DE=xfce; fi } and then uses the following: kde: kfmclient exec "$1" gnome: gnome-open "$1" xfce: exo-open "$1" other: open in a browser among $BROWSER:firefox:mozilla:netscape Of course, what is missing here is the possibility of knowing whether a format is handled. This is done by xdg-mime (except that we do not have mime types for formats (but we should). JMarc
