What is the command that opens .desktop files? Gnome-open opens it in an editor. I need it to open the application that it refers to. Even better would be general method to find out what application it refers to.
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'm trying to get wine to open .pdf files with Foxit.I have no problems running the following command in terminal wine "C:\Program Files\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe" file.pdf
When I try to open pdf files from desktop, I get a dialog box about how to invoke the exe file. How do I get the exe to register the list of files properly?Also, how would I pass command line parameters for Foxit in the desktop entry file?
I am using 2 PCs, both running ubuntu. I want to connect via remote desktop (vnc, ssh -X, etc) form one to the other. However, what the solutions I found until now offer me, is the possibility to create a new desktop session and view that one (or run an application an view that one). I have an application running on the server, and I want to see that application, without needing to restart it or running it again in a new desktop. Is this possible?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI mount /home on a logical partition. Files and directories that I trash from here go nicely into the recycle bin, and I can right click on it and choose "Empty Trash" with no problem. Files off of the root directory in directories that I "own" (i.e. /mydir/*) do not play as nicely. I went ahead and followed instructions from another post, namely:
Code:
sudo mkdir /.Trash
sudo chmod 1777 /.Trash
And after trashing some files from /mydir, there is indeed a subdirectory with my uid (1000) and files that I trash from /mydir are going in there. However, the recycle bin on my desktop remains empty, and the only method I have for deleting said files is by deleting them from the /.Trash/1000 folders through the command line. So my question is: Is there anyway that I can trash files from /mydir, see them appear on the desktop recycle bin, and empty the trash without the need to rm them directly through the command line? Not sure if it will help, but here is my fstab:
Code:
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4129f389-92be-459e-8bbc-928c1440f718 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=6a30914d-04a3-4b03-85bd-2bf16a68a41a /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f388cf04-bbd6-4bf9-9d69-0778b0f158fd none swap sw 0 0
I'm running an upto date version of Lucid on my eeepc 901, sometimes when turning the machine on it loads to a command line sign in screen rather than the Gui screen after signing on it remains in the command line. Reason unknown. What might be wrong and what the command is to get to the Gui screen from the command line.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow can I open a script in a shell (konsole/terminal) with one command?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have created .NET 2.0 windows application setup with MySQL database on the XP and I have installed same setup on the Ubuntu. Right now full setup of my windows application (Desktop application) using WINE installed successfully but I'm facing one major problem. but when I'm trying to open my application using shortcut from desktop its not opening.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe other day Home folder on desktop didn't work, I clicked on it and mouse icon would just load and load, but it didn't open it, i had to go to Menu -> Places -> Home to open it. I created my own shortcut to Home and didn't pay too much attention to it. But today I connected my phone via USB and folders mounted on desktop and I got the same behavior, when I click on it, the whole desktop icons disappear and reload but folder doesn't open. And when I go to network, the same thing happens. I recently reinstalled my openSuse, could it be that it took the settings or something from the old installation?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow do you open a program, in this instance "Zenmap", from the desktop in a user account when it requires root privileges? Is there a way to be prompted for the password, the same way, for instance, you're prompted when mounting a new file system or making a change to the system? I tried entering 'sudo /usr/bin/zenmap' when creating the shortcut, however that didn't work.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAttempting to upgrade Firefox to 3.6. On opening synaptic package manager I get :-
An error occurred
E: dpg was interrupted, you must run 'dpkg--configure-a' to correct the problem.
E:_cache->open()failed,please report.
On entering 'dpkg--configure-a' on terminal I get 'command not found.
After upgrading to 9.10 I am having trouble opening my old files encrypted with pgp. My keyring is still on the computer as I did an update and not a clean install. The problem is that I get a message saying that there is no pgp/mime program installed to open the file. Which program should I install to fix this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm running 9.04 jaunty. I made a file in gimp and saved it as .xcf. I want it to be a pdf file, so I try opening it with open office drawing, but it keeps opening it with the word processor instead. The word processor starts the file if I do a right-click 'open with' on the file on my desktop, and even if I use open from the file menu in drawing itself. I'm wondering what to do to get drawing to open this file. Is it that .xcf is not supported by drawing?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have this file that is about 3.6GB, I'm trying to open it through wine. But it gives me an error saying I can't open it. I'm not sure if this is a problem with wine, or do I need some special code to put in the terminal?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need a software for opening the .PSD files.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a laptop that's not up to par with opening 1080p video. I do however have a PC that can. I've connected my laptop to my TV as a media center. I can remotely access files from the PC to play but because the laptop's resources are being used to play it I still encounter some slowdown. Is there any way to remote access the other PC while using its resources to play the video?
View 6 Replies View Relatedi recently installed Fedora 14 and when i'm trying to open any file i'm getting this error
[root@blitz Documents]# gedit /home/blitz/Desktop/test
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-
[code]....
9.10 Karmic Koala. issue running gscan2pdf. It works fine for scanning, but I want to use it to concatenate / edit existing pdfs. But it hangs on opening PDF files (Import of picture from PDF works fine, but that's not what I need). I tried with a lot of PDF from a lot of different sources.
I added the line "resolution = 200" in the .gscan2pdf file to solve the issue where scanned PDF won't save.
I tried to reinstall the package with Synaptic without more success.
Here the output with debug flag :
I have another thread going about my issue but i have go no responses so i have been trying to fix it myself so on my journeys i thought it would be helpful if i could open my .disk files so i can access the logs so i can see what errors im getting. other thread is [url]
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been getting annoyed with the way that Firefox opens files for me. I used to have it so that they would come up with a window that asked whether I wished to save files onto the hard drive or simply open them. When choosing to Save, they would go to my Desktop. Because I mainly save files from my Uni website, they are generally .pdf files. N for some reason, they open in the Firefox window, so then I have to go to File, Save, then choose where I want to save it. It would be more efficient if it worked the way it did originally. How can I get the settings back to the way they were? I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox 3.0.19. Because I use a shared computer, I'm not sure whether the version of Firefox has been changed.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo I have Python file :
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
print 'python'
raw_input('')
And another :
[Code]....
as it should. I don't want to take such a hassle always running python by path.
I'm trying to open a Windows '.docx' file on Open Office 3.2 and it just crashes.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe just recently started using Linux Ubuntu. I've been having trouble opening PDF files. I can open and close just a few PDF files one at at time, but then suddenly when I click on the PDF link, it opens up to a blank page. After that, all I get are blank pages
View 4 Replies View RelatedI switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu, I zipped a large number of important files, giving them a CIA-grade password. Is there a WinZip clone available for Ubuntu that will enable me to open those password-protected files? Or can I only do the unzipping on another Windows machine?
View 1 Replies View Relatedlinux and i was wondering is there a command that opens files using the cli
View 6 Replies View RelatedI really hate this warning when I try to open certain types of files in gedit: (using ubuntu lucid)
Quote:
Do you want to run File.c or display its contents?
"File.c" is an executable text file.
Open in Terminal; Display; Cancel; Run
Is there any way to remove the warning? I have never once clicked anything other than display, and when I'm opening lots of files, having to hold down ALT-D to get rid of these warnings.
I install a nautilus plug-in which in turn installed the elinks browser and now all of my .html files are opening in elinks instead of firefox so how do I get .htm/.html and other web type files to open in firefox instead of elinks.
I also tried removing elinks from my system but then the files just open in gedit so again how do I associate .html (and other web files) with firefox.
BTW firefox is already set as my default browser in System > Prefs > Prefered Applications > Web Browser
vlc crashes when trying to open video files. I get these outputs from the terminal.
Quote:
VLC media player 1.1.6 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[code]....
I have a wav file bigger than 8GB. i recorded it on a windows PC. unfortunately wav files cant be bigger than 2GB. somehow i got a file that is almost 9GB. I tried to chop the file under ubuntu into smaller pieces to open it part by part. i used gnome split to divide the file and made 10 parts out of it. now i have these parts of the data which i cant read with no program except for gnome split to merge them together again - which would only bring me to the beginning of my problem. so my question is: is there any other way to open/ split&open a wav file of that size or maybe a way to open the splitted file partially?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just moved from Ubuntu to Debian, managed to get the WiFi printer working, installed flash player etc. Just seemed to have trouble opening files over the LAN, is there a firewall setting I need to set. Files work fine if i copy them to the desktop and open them from there but not over the LAN. I have looked on the web with no luck.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI cannot open .xls of .ods documents. Something I have altered recently may have done this. If I right click open with options I cannot find Open office. pdf files are opening with Okular as default. Previously Excel files opened with Open Office as default.Open office appears to be installed. how I can get these files to open and set it as default again.
System: openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
KDE: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) "release 0"
