restricted 'open app' behaviour with firefox/gnome

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Dec 27 16:15:38 UTC 2004


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:25:07PM +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> Clicking on 'Other' gives the standard Gnome file selection window
> but here I can't descend to directories "below" /home, like /, /etc
> or /usr/bin and have nowhere to enter a command.
> So except for changing the default behaviour of Firefox/Gnome wrt 'pdf'
> files I can't use xpdf directly.

Double-click on the word "Filesystem" in the left pane. Now you can browse
starting from "/". No way to type in the pathname, though. This is because
it is now a user-friendly interface.

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