[ale] OpenOrifice and Gnome

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Nov 12 12:43:05 EST 2002


Joseph A Knapka wrote:

> I've installed OpenOffice, and it works great except
> for one thing: I can't seem to get Gnome's MIME-types set
> up properly so that we can open OpenOffice documents
> by double-clicking them in the file manager. I can run
> "soffice filename.sxw" from the command line and everything
> works fine, but if I tell Gnome to use "soffice %f" to open
> .sxw files, it says "Can't open filename.sxw using the
> soffice %f command". Has anyone made this work? I've
> been looking for clues, but haven't come across anything
> useful yet.

(stab in the dark with a dull knife..)

Is it possibly a path issue?  That is give it the full path to soffice???


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