Re: File Associations

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 00:38 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
On 05/05/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 18:19 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
> Hey mates,
>
> A few days ago I seem to have lost all my file
associations... when I
> click on a .jpg, .odp, .rar, etc file, fedora can't open it,
i have to
> manually open the appropriate program and then open the file
from
> within...
>
> What could have caused this and how can I revert it?

On a mac - I would say "rebuild your desktop" :p

create a new user account and see if it happens there.
If it works in a new user account, then I suspect something
jacked up
your gconf2 database.

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Wouldn't it be easier if I just logged on as root and saw if the
problem persisted?

"But it might not give the answer that you want it to!" (with
apologies/thanks to Fleetwood Mac)

Something that works only as root won't necessarily solve a problem,
such as a Selinux problem for example

Good luck!

Scott
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A. Helmy


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