[ale] SOLVED: Re: [ale] OpenOrifice and Gnome

[Joseph A Knapka]

For the archives:

Keywords: Gnome, OpenOffice, MIME type, document handler, soffice

In order for Gnome to use OpenOffice as a document handler,

(1) The dirctory containing the user's local "soffice" script,
typically ~/OpenOffice<version>/, must be on the PATH - even if
you start soffice using the complete path to the soffice script.

(2) The given path must be absolute! Do not use the ~ abbreviation
for "my home dir", Gnome apparently doesn't grok that.

Cheers,

-- Joe

Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> 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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