On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net>wrote:

> **
> When I click on the file foo.abw in the Desktop I would expect the abiword
> application to start with foo.abw open.  But actually firefox opens with
> two tabs and two dialog boxes, both of which state:
>
> You have chosen to open
>
> *foo.abw*
> which is an AbiWord document (10.0 KB)
> from /home/jonrysh/desktop
>
> *What should Firefox do with this file?*
>
> O Open with AbiWord (default)
> O ...
>
>  The preferences in System Settings->File Associations all look OK.
> Clicking on any other file in the Desktop works OK.  What's going on?
> System is Fedora17 with KDE 4.8.4.
>
> Thanks - jon
>
>
Hi Jon:

Either type $abiword foo.abw at the command line or open abiword and chose
file/open; the manner in which you are doing it above will not work. This
is not MS Windows.
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