On Wednesday 31 January 2007 15:36, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Does Linux, or more specifically the Gnome desktop, have a widget like > the one in Windows that associates file extensions with applications so > that, for example, when I double-click on a ".txt" file it opens in my > favorite text editor? Do file extensions have any significance in > Linux? Thanks for the help! -- Jerry Linux is much more clever than that. So far as I know it takes no notice of file name extensions. It looks at the header information inside the file itself. For instance, today I copied in an old file that was originally prepared using Word Perfect under windoze. Hovering over the file in konqueror the bar at the bottom tells me that it knows it is a Word Perfect file. Changing the file name extension from wpd to doc makes no difference - it still knows that this is a Word Perfect file. This one is a very simple file, but Open Office opens it just fine and displays all the text in it very nicely, thanks very much. Dave -- Registered Linux user number 393408 I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763
