On Friday 28 February 2020 01:54:26 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > 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 :( Which is what it's suppose to do... ;) michael@local [~]# xdg-open --help xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application I don't think the current rev's of LO have the ability to allow you to choose what applications to use like FF does. I believe OO use to, but I'm finding nothing in Options (and if it did it'd most likely be under either Tools > Options > LibreOffice or Tools > Options > LibreOffice Base) I wouldn't, but you could write a wrapper for xdg-open that captures what/who's sending the request to do what you want. Most likely be a huge pita, here's a way to get the parent pid: $$ is defined to return the process ID of the parent in a subshell; from the man page under "Special Parameters": https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21063765/why-is-returning-the-same-id-as-the-parent-process Best, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
