I have not tested this but one possible way would be to do something like the following:
and add the following lines to ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
The above is a fairly crude association. For finer grained association, you need to use desktop entries. See the Desktop Entry Specification.
Does anyone know how to associate a file to a program in solaris 8(running CDE). I use my filemgr in solaris and have some .jpg files that are associated with the old openwindows imagetool, so when I dubbleclick the .jpg-file imagetool opens.
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Dear all,
We are planning on upgrading our current HP unix 64 bites from version 11.0 to 11.11. I would like to find out all the possible problems that we will encounter especially on the application side. Can anyone provide me with list(s) or link(s) where I can find out more information?
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Hi...
I have build a program for the Velleman K8000 interface card, in java, which works just fine in windows, but now I want to use the program on a Unix-System.
Is it possible to somehow convert the dll file to a format that Unix supports, or do I have to find another way?
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I'm not very good at associative arrays; and working on this PHP code has got me a bit stumped. My goal is to populate a (multidimensional) associative array in a PHP while look after a MySQL query. The code fragment looks like this:
while($campaign_row = mysql_fetch_array($campaigninfo))
{
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hello,
I need help in Unix scripting
I have a whole list of file name in a Input file. I need to run the command iteratively and output the result into a text file
e.g
While read < Input file ; do
QUERY filenane
done > output.txt
Appreciate your help
Thank you
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I want to have a xterm or xapplication from a Solaris client to appear on my RHEL Server running GNOME desktop. It may sound easy at first but, I have done the basics and I be stuck.
Have Tried:
Linux - logged in as root, open a Terminal and did a echo $DISPLAY and it reports back :0.0
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
desktop-file-validate
DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1) General Commands Manual DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)NAME
desktop-file-validate - Validate desktop entry files
SYNOPSIS
desktop-file-validate [--no-warn-deprecated] [--warn-kde] FILE...
DESCRIPTION
The desktop-file-validate program is a tool to validate desktop entry files according to the Desktop Entry specification 1.0.
The specification describes a file format to provide information such as name, icon and description for an application. Such a file can
then be used as an application launcher and to display the application in the applications menu.
For information about the Desktop Entry specification, see http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec.
The desktop entry files are commonly called desktop files.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--no-warn-deprecated
Do not warn about usage of deprecated items that were defined in previous versions of the specification.
--warn-kde
Warn about usage of KDE extensions to the specification. This includes the use of the KDE Desktop Entry group, of the ServiceTypes,
DocPath, Keywords, InitialPreference, Dev, FSType, MountPoint, ReadOnly, UnmountIcon keys, or of the Service, ServiceType and FSDe-
vice types.
BUGS
If you find bugs in the desktop-file-validate program, please report these on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.
SEE ALSO desktop-file-edit(1)desktop-file-install(1)
FREEDESKTOP.ORG DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)