On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, YoYo siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:33:35PM +0100, Damian wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu> >> 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. > > xdg-open tries to determine the desktop enviroment you are running and > uses its way to open files... > If you are in a kde session, it will just run kfmclient XXX (kde way to > open files in their application), for gnome it will use gnome-open or > something... > > So even if you are not logged in a "full" gnome or kde session, but have > some of its packages installed, you can "trick" xdg-open to use that > enviroment > for kde just export KDE_FULL_SESSION=true, > for gnome GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=something > > so you can run beagle-search with > GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=something beagle-search > > you have to set which applications to use in corresponding config > (for kde, just run konqueror/dolphin and right click a file, don't know > for gnome) > > for kde, you need the package kde-base/kfmclient, which should depend > juast on kdelibs, for gnome-open you need gnome-base/libgnome, which > shouldn't have much dependences that you don't have allready if you have > some gtk app.. > > btw, gnome-open/kfcmclient will open files in any available program that > correctly registers its mime-types, not only in kde/gnome apps..., so > you really need only kfmclient/libnome to use it... > > > one last remark, if set KDE_FULL_SESSION/GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID for > xdg-open and it starts a gnome/kde app, that app might think that there > are some desktop specific things running, that are not, though I haven't > seen any real problems with it... > You might however just edit the "detectDE" function in xdg-open to > always behave like gnome/kde without settings the variables... > > yoyo > > > PS the idea of xdg-open using a browser, when it cannont detect which DE > are you running, is that a browser usually knows how to open which > files... and you should have your preffered browser set in $BROWSER... Thanks a lot for that nice explanation.
I've exported export BROWSER=gnome-open, and this way I could fix my problem. Regards, Damian.
