[ale] OpenOrifice and Gnome

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, 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.

You are aware that OpenOffice itself starts from a shell script? FWIW, 
I've had troubles with OpenOffice starting up because of challenges with 
the script launching the application.



> 
> Bleh.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
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