ROX filemanager could not find 'vi'.

eauclair · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 52

I think I found a bug in the 'rox' filemanager. I chose an operation on a file that was supposed to bring up an editor, and it failed to find 'vi' on my system. I then did an emerge on 'vi', and I think it worked. I'm not at the machine now, but I think that is what happened.

I installed it with an 'emerge rox'.

thx

quikchaos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

I am not so sure it is a "bug", but just that 'rox' comes preconfigured to open different file types with different default apps. You should be able to change the configuration for 'rox' to use kedit for text based files, etc.
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Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

That is just the default editor that rox uses to open text files. You can have it changed to whatever you want.

herring · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 187 Location: Norway

eauclair · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 52

Oops, I screwed up the rox file manager. Is there a way to re-set the MIME type? I put in a bad program name on the "set run action", and now when I try to set it - it says I cant. I tried to set HTML files to "$1 phoenix" instead of "phoenix $1" (or something like that.

cgansen · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 29

just find an .html file, right click, and choose the "Set Run Action..."

in the text field, you can specify/alter the program associated with the filetype.

tomlow · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 26 Location: New York

is there anyway to get it to associate with avi, mov files. I keep getting a can only associate with regular files message. Actually set run action is greyed out, but I can still click it.

Now I see it is the same for mp3 files

herring · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 187 Location: Norway

I think I had this problem myself with mp3's on a network samba share, as if they were not regular files. No solution found....yet

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject:

From the rox-users mailing list:

IIRC, there is an option within ROX that says "ignore known MIME types
that have executable bit". Enabling this will solve your problem.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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