| Jon_ | hello, I am looking for some advice on file associations in unity ... just a sec. while I compose the question ... | 04:05 |
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| Jon_ | From reading I know that there are two files having to do with associations: /usr/share/applications/default.list and ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ... | 04:06 |
| Jon_ | does anyone know why .../defaults.list is executable? or when it is called? | 04:07 |
| Jon_ | my problem is I can't get gedit from opening a python file when the file is double clicked ... | 04:08 |
| Jon_ | I have been through several sites describing this problem but failed to stop it by removing the associations in these two files | 04:09 |
| Jon_ | everyone out for the night? | 04:30 |
| Jon_ | hello | 10:50 |
| Saviq | Jon_, that file is not executable normally, something must've gone weird on your system | 10:52 |
| Saviq | it can't be executed since it's just an .ini-style file | 10:52 |
| Jon_ | :) actually just saying "HI" | 10:52 |
| Saviq | sure, I just saw scrollback :) | 10:52 |
| Jon_ | oh! cool | 10:53 |
| Saviq | Jon_, what would you want to happen instead? the python code to be executed? | 10:53 |
| Jon_ | I was wondering ... I got the python script to run by creating a launcher shortcut ... but yes I wanted to run it with python | 10:54 |
| Saviq | Jon_, this should help https://askubuntu.com/questions/286621/how-do-i-run-executable-scripts-in-nautilus | 10:54 |
| Saviq | Jon_, note this is this way for security reasons - so you don't accidentally run random scripts when you wanted to open them | 10:56 |
| Jon_ | Saviq ... you may have saved me ... I wasn't sure what Nautilus was ... :) | 10:56 |
| Saviq | Nautilus is the GNOME file manager, also called "Files" now | 10:57 |
| Jon_ | I did get the .desktop file associated with my script to work ... but the icon did not show up ... I tried putting it in /usr/share/app-intall/icsons but it was not found. Do you happen to know of another place ... | 10:58 |
| Jon_ | I have the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications | 10:59 |
| Saviq | Jon_, just put an absolute path in Icon= | 11:00 |
| Jon_ | ah! thx | 11:01 |
| Jon_ | BTW ... I have only seen you in this chat ... are you an admin? | 11:02 |
| Saviq | Jon_, no, I'm a workaholic ;) | 11:04 |
| Saviq | Jon_, but for real, it's just Saturday | 11:05 |
| Jon_ | yeah! your ahead of me timewise ... still friday night to me :) | 11:06 |
| Jon_ | Saviq_, really just want to say THANKS I was about to give up. I'll let you get back to work. | 11:19 |
| Saviq | s/work/life/ | 11:19 |
| Saviq | glad I could help o/ | 11:19 |
| Jon_ | :) | 11:19 |
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