rgheck wrote: > On 12/10/2009 09:43 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Pavel Sanda<sa...@lyx.org> writes: >> >> >>> Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>>> I thought about using "xdg-mime query default application/rtf", e.g., >>>> but this simply hangs on my system. (There are similar reports on >>>> Ubuntu.) Is >>>> >>> last experiments about xdg utils on gentoo launched firefox and firefox >>> try to do next openings if it knows how. >>> >> And could we mimick the useful parts of xdg-open (use gnome stuff under >> gnome, kde stuff under kde, xfce too, and give up otherwise)? >> >> > Are there command-line ways of doing this, or do we have to link to a > ton of things here?
Yes, just look at xdg-mime which attempts to do precisely that. -- Rex
