On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Willie Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:45:14PM +0100, Damian wrote: >> So I tried to see how xdg-open works, but the man page didn't give me >> any useful information. The related command, xdg-mime, doesn't work as >> I expected. > > I asked a similar question a week or so back. I searched in my mails but I couldn't find it. Sorry, I probably didn't enter a relevant search string.
>> But xdg-open (and therefore beagle-search) still refuses to open jpeg >> images with geeqie. >> >> Any ideas? > > xdg-open is just a shell script. If you are interested, take a look at > less `which xdg-open` > and you will be enlightened as to why it is a complete piece of crap > unless you are using KDE, GNOME, or XFCE. (Hint, notice how nowhere in > the script does it read whatever you modified with xdg-mime.) > > A possible way to work around it (depends on your application, which, > in your case, is beagle, which I am not familiar with) is to go into > the offending application that is calling xdg-open and see if you can > configure MIME types in there yourself. The application that made me > look this up, Jabref, does allow that configuration. Your mileage can > of course vary. Thanks Willie for your answer. Sadly beagle-search doesn't offer any option. The developers must use only gnome. I guess I will have so find another beagle front end, or choose a different desktop search engine. > Cheers, > > W > -- > Willie W. Wong [email protected] > Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire > et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton > >
