28 Feb
2020
28 Feb
'20
8:21 p.m.
On Friday 28 February 2020 01:54:26 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:49:24 -0600
David C. Rankin scripsit:
Which is what it's suppose to do... ;)
michael@local [~]# xdg-open --help
xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
I don't think the current rev's of LO have the ability to allow you to choose
what applications to use like FF does. I believe OO use to, but I'm finding
nothing in Options (and if it did it'd most likely be under either Tools >
Options > LibreOffice or Tools > Options > LibreOffice Base)
I wouldn't, but you could write a wrapper for xdg-open that captures
what/who's sending the request to do what you want. Most likely be a huge
pita, here's a way to get the parent pid:
$$ is defined to return the process ID of the parent in a subshell; from the
man page under "Special Parameters":
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21063765/why-is-returning-the-same-id-a…
Best,
Michael
On 02/28/2020 12:41 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
wrote:
Well, yes, but that kills the setting for the rest of the system :( hi all!
Looks like a little GNOME just hit me with a club: I'm working on a
presentation with libreoffice impress (yes, I hnow, why ...). Now that
thing has a function "Edit image using external tool". Selecting that,
impress calls "xdg-open file://tmp/sdfsfewf.png" - which call in my
case kuickshow - which is not surprising, as I use kuickshow for
viewing images. But how do I persuade that piece of a genius to call
gimp ???
Nik
Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Center -> TDE Components -> File
Assiciations -> image -> png
in Application Preference Order - highlight GIMP and choose [Move Up]
until GIMP is at the top of the list.
That should do it, if not, click the Embedding tab and set the radio
button to 'Show file in separate viewer'.
If that doesn't do it, then I'm out of bullets.