Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

[Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:00 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here's the problem I am trying to tackle.
> >
> > I have a presentation in Open Office (.odp) that uses external
> > handlers to play multimedia. For instance, it plays movies (.mov,
> > .avi, .mpg) directly, or, in some instances, it calls scripts (a Ruby
> > script, for instance) to call them. Now, under KDE3.5 things worked as
> > defined in Konqueror. Under KDE4, no such luck.
> >
> > For instance, that Ruby script would execute fine out of a Konqueror
> > window but it just fails to execute out of the ODP. Instead, an editor
> > opens that shows me the content of the script. The same with the movie
> > files - they fail to open the same way; if you are lucky, a Konqueror
> > plugin will play them - but I want a standalone application of my
> > choosing.
> >
> > How do I fix that? Any ideas?
>
> I had the same thing with a shell script. It was executable. But
> clicking on it opened it in an editor. When I added
>
>        #!/bin/sh
>
> to the start, it once again ran when clicked. How does the Ruby script
> look on the very first line?
>
> If I could only figure out why the script does not default to run in the
> folder it was in and that you clicked on, I would be happier. Remember,
> it is not a .desktop file with settings.
>
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Thanks, Roger, that was a good thought... But those scripts begin with:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

which seems about right to me...
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