Confirmed in nautilus, gnome opens a binary program correctly when the mode is 755 (executable) but tries to open ELF binaries in Wine if it's not executable.
Gnome should be able to identify a program which you don't have execution permissions on. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ubuntu-meta => nautilus Status: New => Confirmed -- Ubuntu tries to open .run self-extracting installers with gEdit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs