Hi On 06/08/2011 12:08 PM, h.g. muller wrote: > I was wondering if it would be possible to do the same kind of stuff > on a Linux XBoard install as we do now with WinBoard: associate > file types with some specific XBoard command, so that clicking a > file of that type would automatically start up an XBoard in the required > mode.
This should be doable. Although on linux I think this is more an issue of the desktop manager, probably standardized by freedesktop.org? If I want to add this by hand on gnome, I can right click on a .pgn file and set the preferred application that I want to open this file with... not sure how to set this automatically during install of xboard though. There is /usr/share/applications/default.list that connects application to MIME-types, but then I'm not sure how to set the MIME-type... This might solve it though: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30931/register-file-extensions-mime-types-in-linux Will look into that a bit more... seems like this would be something that we don't want to add to the install of xboard (not sure how this would work on non-linux systems), but rather have the distributions add it to their packaging. ARUN _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
