I got tired of waiting for this to be fixed, so I implemented a
workaround.
I moved the gedit binary to gedit.bin, then I created a shell-script
named gedit that calls gedit.bin with the --standalone option:
% mv /usr/bin/gedit /usr/bin/gedit.bin
% vi /usr/bin/gedit
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gedit.bin
With karmic, has anyone tried opening sftp:// Open Office documents ?
When I double-click on .xls files on an sftp:// volume, I get:
Could not display sftp://remote/file.xls;.
There is no application installed for Excel spreadsheet files
But the Properties / Open With for the file
I should have mentioned that I am using Free-NX. I think this is
relevant, since I just noticed that there is no file system mounted in
~/.gvfs/ when I access an sftp:// volume with Free-NX.
I tried opening an sftp://.xls file in karmic without Free-NX (just a
local Gnome desktop) and that did
