[ale] OpenOrifice and Gnome

[Joseph A Knapka]

Geoffrey wrote:
> 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???

Tried it, no joy.

I've also completely restarted to Gnome desktop to ensure that
the configuration changes were saved properly. No joy.

I had a feeling it was happening because soffice puts itself
in the background rather than running as a normal application.
I tried writing a bash script that starts soffice and then
sleeps until soffice exists, but Gnome didn't like that
either.

Bleh.

-- Joe


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