File Associations
Oldman
talbotscott at cox.net
Sat May 6 01:59:51 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 00:38 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
> On 05/05/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 18:19 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey mates,
> >
> > A few days ago I seem to have lost all my file
> associations... when I
> > click on a .jpg, .odp, .rar, etc file, fedora can't open it,
> i have to
> > manually open the appropriate program and then open the file
> from
> > within...
> >
> > What could have caused this and how can I revert it?
>
> On a mac - I would say "rebuild your desktop" :p
>
> create a new user account and see if it happens there.
> If it works in a new user account, then I suspect something
> jacked up
> your gconf2 database.
>
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> Wouldn't it be easier if I just logged on as root and saw if the
> problem persisted?
>
"But it might not give the answer that you want it to!" (with
apologies/thanks to Fleetwood Mac)
Something that works only as root won't necessarily solve a problem,
such as a Selinux problem for example
Good luck!
Scott
> --
> Cheers,
> A. Helmy
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