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Re: [trinity-users] xdg-open and libreoffice

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:54:26 +0100
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:49:24 -0600
 David C. Rankin scripsit:
> On 02/28/2020 12:41 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > 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.

Well, yes, but that kills the setting for the rest of the system :(


> 



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