Questions tagged [file-opening]
How to open files in the desired application.
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How do I open a file at specific line in a running emacs?
emacs can be run from the command line to open a file at line n with a +n command line argument like so :
$ emacs +n file
I'd like to do the same from a running emacs instance, either via find-file ...
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How to set Open File Dialog path explicitly?
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I'd like to point a folder so any application will start its "File Open Dialog" in it. How can I do that?
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I'm naturally using many applications while working on a ...
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Open any .c file with Sublime Text using a terminal command
The IDE that I use is Sublime Text 3.
If I want to open a file through a terminal with Sublime Text, I have to type:
subl <file>.c
I want to edit my .bashrc so that any .c file automatically ...
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Canonical way to simulate a file manager "open item" from the command line
Almost every desktop environment has a mechanism for determining what to do when you (double)-click a file in file manager/explorer windows. This can be based on the extension, or on whatever file ...
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Launch executable with xdg-open
I am trying to write a function launchSystemFile which works like windows ShellExecuteEx from the command line or from C++.
If I ShellExecuteEx a blah.txt it opens it in the default editor.
If I ...
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How to automatically open terminal window when I click a script?
My Python script has an interpreter in a first line. The file is executable. Is it possible that I click on my script and the terminal windows opens, executes the script and stays open?
Right now, ...
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What is the selected application for XFCE's exo-open?
Under XFCE, xdg-open calls exo-open.
When exo-open is called with --launch is uses the application set with xfce4-settings-manager.
However, when one calls exo-open foo.txt (local path, without --...
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Universal file association file
I am using multiple desktops / windows managers (KDE, Openbox wm, and i3 wm ) on my PC and I want to establish an unified and universal file where I would set file associations for my whole system.
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Can I add the Twig file type to Linux?
I generally give Twig files a "twig" extension. As I understand it these Twig files are usually recognised as HTML like files by Linux using some sort of scan algorithm. So Nemo for example ...
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What program to use to open files? (gnome-open, gvfs-open, xdg-open, etc.)
I have a Java program that runs on Linux, and from within the program, I want to open files (e.g. PDF files) with the system's native viewer. There are various programs available for this purpose: ...
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Where mimeopen saves default app config?
I associated pdf with Okular using mimeopen. Then I became curious where it had saved the configuration. My first guess was:
$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list
but it didn't contain the right entry. So I ...
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Directory of the "open files dialog" in Kicad
I need to make an application (Kicad, in this context) launch its "Open File" dialog in current working directory (where I launched Kicad).
Is there any standard environment variable for this ...
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Is there any way to detect file type and open it with GUI in terminal in Fedora? [duplicate]
For example , there are two files a.ppt and b.jpg .
And I can call a magic method to open them appropriately just like :
magic_method a.ppt
magic_method b.jpg
And it open libreoffice writer and ...
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Is there a FreeDesktop command to open an open-with dialog similar to xdg-open?
is there a (FreeDesktop) Linux command to open an "open-with" dialog similar to xdg-open?
I'm searching for some general desktop environment independent solution for showing something like this:
Of ...
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Why does linux use file extension to decide the default program for opening a file though it's independent of file extensions
I have a text file as- abc.text and it has its contents as Hi I'm a text file.
If I double click to open this file, then the files is opened in gedit editor.
Whereas, if I rename the file to abc....
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Change default web browser to lynx from terminal
I'm on Linux Mint Olivia. I just installed Lynx.
How do I set Lynx as my browser, so when I open links from the terminal, they open in that terminal with Lynx?
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`open` command to open a file in an application
Why can't I run this command in my terminal:
open index.html
Wasn't it supposed open this file on my browser? Also can't I run this command: open index.html -a "Sublime Text". The result of these ...
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Set default program for one specific file in Nemo
There's a lot of questions on how to change the default program for a specific file extension, but I want to know if I can change the default program for a specific file.
Reason: Some PDFs don't ...
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Opening current directory from a terminal onto a file browser?
My current directory is buried deep in multiple subfolder layers from my home directory. If I want to open this directory in a gui-based file browser, I have to double click folder after folder to ...
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Linux Fedora: How to open a file with a random application
I downloaded a cross-assembler that as far I can tell, i am supposed to open a .txt file with it and the assembler will create an a.out file somewhere. But Fedora only lets me open .txt files with ...
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How to change programs used to handle files in Calibre in Debian
I have recently installed Calibre, and it works great, however I have some problems with handling of files by this program:
Folders open in baobab. To open folder I just need to click on a book and ...
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Disable breadcrumb navigation in KDE
I want to copy the file path from a file open dialog, but can't because of breadcrumb-style navigation. There's no option in the dialog itself to switch between breadcrumb and address bar.
I want to ...
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How to open any file through the command line?
I would like to know if there is a command to open any file in Linux independently of their extension, just as if you were double-clicking it.
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Which config-file stores file associations in KDE/Plasma?
With the 15.04 release of Kubuntu, I switched from Gnome (Ubuntu) to KDE/Plasma. I did a clean install, while keeping my home directory. Now, libreoffice (mostly Calc) seems to be associated with ...
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How are file types known if not from file suffix?
I would like to know how file types are known if filenames don't have suffixes.
For example, a file named myfile could be binary or text to start with, how does the system know if the file is binary ...
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KDE opens .deb files with ar instead of a package manager
I just installed Debian for the first time. I use KDE. I'm trying to install Google Chrome and Steam. I download the installation package, then I double-click it. Instead of installing, both display ...
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Prevent the Gtk file dialog from listing mount points
When I open the Gtk file dialog, there is a box called “Places” on the left-hand side which lists “Search”, “Recently Used”, a bunch of directories, and several things that appear to be volumes. I don'...
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programmatically alter kde file associations
Problem:
In kde I want to remove a particular file association from every file type
Details:
I wanted to try out clamTk as a companion to clamAv. It didn't suit my needs so I uninstalled the ...
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Make Firefox use xdg-open for opening files
Is there any way to force Firefox to use system-wide defaults, i.e. xdg-open for opening all types of files?
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How to change my file/url association across all my DM/WM without using the GUI?
I have installed several Desktop Managers and Window Managers, and changing the file association can become a mess. I need some foolproof method which can allow me to change my user or system file ...
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How to find/remove file associations for a certain program in KDE
I had a program installed on my Kubuntu system that was able to open a lot of different graphics file types and registered as default program for many of those file types. I have unistalled the ...
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Where does firefox get the “default” applications for opening files from?
By default, the Firefox (33.0) on my FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT has the default application for opening PDF files set to Inkscape. Firefox does remember my previous choice, evince, in the “What should ...
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How an application is chosen over others to open a particular filetype in Linux
Earlier my text/xml files were by default opened by firefox I think. Not sure of this because I do not remember exactly. Then I think I installed geany and then my text/xml files were always by ...
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Files are opened by wrong applications if opened from a number of programs
History: I had problems with mime associations under Firefox. Firefox opened downloaded files with wrong programs. I deleted ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and now it works.
Now I noticed ...
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Reading file with different formats [duplicate]
I am a new user to Linux. I have several files and documents in my directory and sometimes when I want to read or display data in these files, I do not know which command I need to type for this ...
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How does Linux choose which application to open a file?
If a file tells the OS its file format, how does the OS choose which application to open it by default?
In Windows, is the association stored in the registry table?
How does Linux choose which ...
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How to find out which program can open a given file?
Let's say I have a file thesis.pdf or picture.jpg
Is there a command which returns a program to open this file with?
I am aware of the command file, but it just returns the correct type of the file ...
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Is there an "open with" command for the command line?
Does the command line have a way to get a recommended list of programs used to open a particular file, based on the file type? For example, a .pdf file would have an open with... recommendation using ...
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Open file with default program and wait until the app is terminated [closed]
I want to open a text file from the command line with the default application. During that time the default app is opened, the terminal must be disabled (cannot execute another command). For example, ...
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If I open the same file twice in Okular, switch to the existing window
I have always been confused why the file manager in Linux cannot stop applications from opening a single file twice at the same time?
Specifically, I want to stop the PDF file reader Okular from ...
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Configuring Org-mode to open PDFs with evince
I'm starting to use org-mode to export text to LaTeX.
My problem is that it opens the generated PDF with ebook-viewer (it is a EPUB, CHM reader) instead of using evince.
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Does anyone know ...
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ranger: open many files with mplayer
I use the file explorer called ranger and I wonder if it is possible to open many files in different directory with mplayer?
What I can already do is to select all the files (pressing v) from one ...
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Use xdg-open to open a url with a new process
I'm starting to experiment with Crunchbang (which is based on Debian, and uses terminator) as a web development environment, and one of the things I am struggling with is the behaviour of xdg-open. I ...
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File extensions and association with programs in linux
In windows we can associate a file's extension with programs.
E.g. a file test.pl can be run by the installed Perl interpreter due to the pl extension.
In linux though it needs #!/usr/bin/perl as the ...
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Open any kind of application with BASH
I have made a Java program that could open any application. Suppose there is a file name "*.jpg", the it would allow the OS to recognize the type of application and then open the default application. ...
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