[ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"

[William Walter Kinghorn]

Hi Bill.

Try, Right click on file , Properties, Open With tab, select what you want to do with file

William
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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Bill Cairns [cairnsww at gmail.com]
Sent: 10 April 2012 17:23
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Miles <msdomdonner at gmail.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com>
> Reply-to: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11:36 +0200
>
> How does this assignment of application to files work? At one stage I
> did an "Open with" Calibre of a .pdf file and (I presume" left the
> "Always use..." box ticked. . Since then, every time I click on a .pdf
> file Calibre grabs it - this despite my trying to reassign them to the
> document viewer. I have a similar problem with bash script files - it
> has decided that AbiWord is the correct application to open them when
> I click on them and select "Open with". Gedit - my preferred
> application does not even appear as an option despite my going to "Use
> other application" and selecting it.
>
> I am not sure when these problems started, but they have been going on
> for some time. I have been running 10.04 since it was released and the
> problem was certainly not there from the beginning. It has really
> become a nuisance since calibre started grabbing all the .pdf fines -
> my Calibre library is beginning to have lots of strange "eBooks" in it
> that I am not likely to ever load onto my reader!
>
>
> Hi Bill. right click and open with other application, then choose what
> you want to use to open them. untick the remeber this block if you only
> want to go that route once
> Hope this helps
> Miles

Thanks Miles - yes I know that is how it is supposed to work. But in
my case it doesn't.

I have just done it again.

Right click on a .pdf file.

Up comes the drop down menu:
Open with Calibre
Open with Document Viewer
<some other choices>
Other Application

I chose Other Application, select Document Viewer, leave "remember
this application for "PDF" files" ticked

Document viewer opens up. I close it.

Right click on the same .pdf file

I get exactly the same drop down menu as before with Calibre heading
up the list.

Something fishy?

Bill

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