Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup
See below for replies ... From: MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 17 February, 2011 4:03:35 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dwayne Barber dwa...@sasktel.net wrote: how can I set Libre as the default program to open power point email messages? That would depend a lot on what you did not tell us: which OS? What window manager? What email client? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** Hi :) Most linux distros and Windows platforms all have a very similar gui pointclick way of doing this. First save one of the email files to your machine. Then right-click on that file and choose Properties - Open With Set it to LibreOffice or Impress. Note that the right-click menu probably also has an OpenWith option but this is a one off whereas the one in Properties sets all files of this type to be opened with the program you choose. You can test this by going back to the email and ask it to just open the file rather than downloading it this time. Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup
On 2011-02-17 7:37 AM, Karl Lambert wrote: That does not work on my windows xp machine. Pretty bothersome. I have had a few times when setting the file associations with 'Open with' did not work, and it turned out to be registry permission problems, but it was painstaking, and honestly the easiest way to fix it I found was an in-place re-install of windows... Reinstalling/Repair Installing OOo wouldn't fix the problem... I opened a bug about this with OOo asking/begging for a proper File Associations Manager, that would also include the ability to fix busted permissions on registry entries, but was told to go away... maybe I'll try again with LibO... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Most linux distros and Windows platforms all have a very similar gui pointclick way of doing this. Similar but a) not the same and b) sufficiently different to be worth the distinction. First save one of the email files to your machine. Then right-click on that file and choose Properties - Open With Set it to LibreOffice or Impress. Note that the right-click menu probably also has an OpenWith option but this is a one off whereas the one in Properties sets all files of this type to be opened with the program you choose. This sequence does not work for Windows Explorer. Also, I realize that this would involve some effort, but could you please at least consider deleting the excess bits of what you reply to, like the footer that gets propagated to *all* list posts, extra blank lines, etc? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2011-02-17 7:37 AM, Karl Lambert wrote: That does not work on my windows xp machine. Pretty bothersome. I have had a few times when setting the file associations with 'Open with' did not work, and it turned out to be registry permission problems, but it was painstaking, and honestly the easiest way to fix it I found was an in-place re-install of windows... Linux is a great solution to this problem :-) Reinstalling/Repair Installing OOo wouldn't fix the problem... AFAICT, it only works with the first installation of anything that handles a particular file type. All other changes appear to require manual intervention. Still, that really isn't OOo's fault, or LibO either - it's the file manager's. I opened a bug about this with OOo asking/begging for a proper File Associations Manager, that would also include the ability to fix busted permissions on registry entries, but was told to go away... maybe I'll try again with LibO... I don't know the technical details involved, but I suspect that, without a universal API for file managers to do this sort of thing, it won't happen for LO, either. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dwayne Barber dwa...@sasktel.net wrote: how can I set Libre as the default program to open power point email messages? That would depend a lot on what you did not tell us: which OS? What window manager? What email client? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
