[K12OSN] File Associations for All Users
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at kinz.org
Wed Sep 8 16:17:44 UTC 2004
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:12:26AM -0500, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> >> Can someone tell me how to set Konqueror's file associations (i.e. MS
> >> Word documents opened with StarOffice, etc.) for all users in one shot?
> >>
> > Mark:
> >
> > Did you ever get the answer to this? Yesterday I had a high school
> > student trying to print a flyer that was a pdf -- GVC or some Gnome
> > program opened the pdf and didn't allow us to request multiple copies,
> > or change whether or not it printed in color or black and white. I
> > wanted to try acroread, but ran into problems trying to save the
> > web-based pdf and open it again. It was very frustrating for the
> > student and me. By the end, all he wanted was a windows machine. :^(
> > I looked at the file /etc/mime-types, but that didn't seem to be what
> > I thought. I didn't see that you received a response to this..... I'd
> > like to set acroread as the default application for all pdf's, local
> > or web-based. Everyone it seems is using pdf's for text documents now
> > on the web.
> >
> > Rita Gibson
> > RMSEL
>
> No, I didn't receive an answer on this list, nor have I been able to
> find an answer anywhere else. I know how to do it for each user
> individually, but not for all of them at once.
> --
I believe this setting is konq specific.
Mark - do you know what file gets modified for an individual user ?
If so, the "locate" command can tell you where files with similar names
exist on the system. One of them may hold the "global default"
settings.
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