On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:10, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 19:16, steve-ss wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:57, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 07:49, steve-ss wrote:
Is there anyway I can make kde file associations globally affect a whole system rather than just locally to a single user?
Thanks, Steve.
Didn't I already answer you regarding this?
| User settings are in ~/.kde/share/mimelnk, and system wide settings | are in /opt/kde3/share/mimelnk
Hi. sorry, must have missed it. I can associate files in the user directories using kde control center but how do I edit or add an association in /opt/ kde3/share/mimelnk? I've tried creating the association as a user and then as root copy it to the /opt directory but it doesn't work. Basically all I want to do is add correct global entries for OpenOffice so that the file association works systemwide rather than just for a user. At the moment in SuSE-9.0 all OOo files are associated with the dearchiver.
Thanks, steve
A couple of possible solutions/suggestions: As root edit the star*.desktop files in /opt/kde3/share/mimelnk, adding the file OOo patterns to the entry. Then dup to the rest of the systems. StarOffice and OOo use the same file format.
Or, do what you tried to do, but I suspect you missed a vital step. The user file you create is only readable by you. You then make a copy which belongs to root. Now only root can read that file in /opt. You need to "chmod 644 <filename>" the file to allow everyone else to read the file contents.
Lastly you need to either logout and back in, or exit all instances of konqueror then issue a "killall konqueror" to kill the pre-loaded instance. If you don't do this, you won't see your changes.
Thanks Stephen. chmod 644 did it.