On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:09 -0400, A. Costa wrote: > % xdg-mime query filetype Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe ; echo $? > xdg-mime: no method available for quering MIME type of > 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' > 3 > > # if it matters... > % file Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe ; echo $? > Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe: symbolic link to `/mnt/c/Program > Files/spacemonger/SpaceMonger.exe' > 0
Okay, it looks like xdg-mime is just a wrapper for gnomevfs-info, from the libgnomevfs2-bin package. Can you try again with that? > # command line output > % xdg-open Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe ; echo $? > method return sender=:1.4 -> dest=:1.5 reply_serial=2 > 0 > > What happened was that 'abiword' started, and attempted to open > 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe', which makes 'abiword' hang, or at least pause > longer than I was willing to wait -- hence, 'xkill': result Zombie > processes, argh. That's weird. Wine is set to open .exe files, right? (Double check by right clicking the .exe and selecting "Open With" in Nautilus) > > There's also a couple of other things you could try; > > > > * See if you have any local customisations made to the mime database > > in ~/.local/share/mime > > I'm not really sure what to look for. Attached is an archive of that > directory -- the file is small, not much in there. As far as I can see, there's nothing there to cause any problems. > > * Temporary add a new user to your system and see if you can reproduce > > this with a fresh setup. > > My Debian system (and X session) is too busy today... unfortunately my > current window manager/GUI desktop environment, xfce4, doesn't (so far > as I know) allow me to start another session as another user. Under > KDE it would be easy. Unless you know of a way around that, I'll take > a raincheck, and tell you how it goes when this system is less busy... You could use something like Xephyr or Xnest to launch another session in a window. I did find a matching bug in shared-mime-info Bugzilla; https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6320 I will probably add a short summary of your problem there and ask the upstream developers if they have any ideas. There's also a workaround described there, renaming the .exe to .com, maybe you can try that too? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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