Ben is correct, this is going to be different from one window manager to the next.
Here's a nice intro to gnome-open which is what you would want to use on ubuntu http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/16/gnome-open-open-anything-from-the-command-line/ in OS X you would use open But for historical reasons this means something completely different in the world of linux (usually but not always an alias for openvt), which only works when you are using the console, and will fail if you are in a GUI. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ben Barrett <stircrazy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that would be dependent on your window manager, or at least that > you could summon a Gnome or KDE panel only if those libraries were available > on the given system.... so you may have trouble making something open > everywhere unless you make your own X component for it or find one to > re-use... you might be able to look into Nautilus (gnome) or Konqueror (kde) > file browsers for a nice function... > Don't know more, but this set off some blinky warning lights in my head :) > > Ben > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, marbux <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, all, >> >> I'm working on a cross-platform Lua script that needs to, inter alia, >> summon an "Open With" dialog from a Bash command line, the dialog that >> typically pops up when a file has no app associated with it in the >> environment. But I'm having no luck finding how to do that. Anyone >> here happen to know the answer or some keywords that might help me >> track it down? >> >> FWIW and in case it's of any use to someone else, I found the >> equivalent command line for Windows: >> >> Rundll32.exe shell32.dll, OpenAs_RunDLL [filepath] >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
