On Monday 17 March 2025 14:52:19 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > On 3/17/25 12:55 PM, WraithGlade via tde-users wrote: > > I don't know how to solve your issue itself, but perhaps you could work > > around it easily by .... > > Thanks for replying. :) > > All clever ideas (I relish people who think outside the box!), but in > the end all are work-arounds for a problem that should not exist. > > For me the frustrating part is I am trying diligently to return to TDE > full time. I am a little unsure what the problem is that you describe, as I seem to have solved these problems in my own way. And I have been using TDE (and before that, KDE3) almost exclusively since about 2006 or so; or, that is, almost exactly coinciding with when I decided to change from those other bad proprietary operating systems that we all know and despise. I have only briefly tried other Linux desktops; when KDE3 changed to KDE4, for example, and I could no longer patch and hack and cobble together a working system from my KDE 3.5 Hardy Heron 8.04x. Like you, I want to use TDE exclusively, if possible; otherwise, I would probably rather give up entirely, and quit using these infernal time-wasting machines for anything at all ... except, our world nowadays pretty much demands that we use the latest technology for everything, even when I can do it better and faster myself with my own hands. Just so you know where I stand on these issues ... ;-) Now, I have tried to follow this thread, but maybe I have missed some details, and maybe I don't grasp why you are going about this in a way that seems much harder than necessary. And if I am totally missing the mark here, I apologize. But here goes. Try this: right-click on the item that you want to open with X [whatever your desired viewer or program]. Then choose "Open With"; after which you will see a list of your most likely choices. (The default choice will be at the top of the list.) To change the default choice to your own preference, look to the very bottom of the list, where you will see "Other ..."; here you have several options. 1. There is a space to enter the name of the program you want; or you can left-click on that little downwards-pointing arrow at the right, where you may find a list of programs that you have already used before. Before making any changes to your system, I would first look for your desired program, to see if it is already in that list. Click on that to make sure that it opens normally. If so, you can make it your permanent default choice (for which, see the last step). To the right of that, you will see a folder icon, where you can manually search through your system for the program, but you will probably need to look in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin/ or (for Trinity programs) /opt/trinity/bin or /opt/trinity/sbin. 2. You can type in the name of a program; for example, to open a .jpg with kuickshow or gwenview or gimp, as I describe above, and usually this works. But sometimes you may encounter a glitch; to bypass such problems, you can manually enter the whole path; e.g., /usr/bin/X [name of program] or maybe /usr/sbin/X. For Trinity programs, you would enter /opt/trinity/bin/X or /opt/trinity/sbin/X. 3. Once you have verified that your desired program opens the file you have chosen, you may wish to make it permanent. To do so, repeat whatever step worked to open that file (e.g., you want kuickshow to open .jpg files). That is, (a) right-click on the file, choose "Open With" then go down to the bottom and click on "Other ..."; or (b) manually type the name of the program, if it comes up; or (c) manually enter the path to the program you want; or (d) click on that folder at the right, and search through the system (in /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin/ or /opt/trinity/bin/ or /opt/trinity/sbin/. These are the steps that I already described above. 4. Last of all, to make these changes permanent, so that you can open a file with your desired program just by clicking on it, or even by highlighting and hitting "Enter": check the box at the bottom left corner, where it says "Remember application association for this type of file"; then click OK, and you're done. You can always change your default preference by going through these steps again; although, with a little practice, you probably will have it narrowed down to one or two ways to get it done, and you won't have to search through all possible methods, or to enter full paths, etc. See attachment for a snapshot from my own machine. I hope this helps; if not for yourself, then at least for some others out there. Slainté! (It's St Patrick's Day here.) Later tonight, I will raise a toast to all my worthy friends, and even maybe to some who are unworthy. Bill
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