Dramashack!

Something that used to irritate me about using Firefox in KDE is that I cannot open files in the download manager by double-clicking them.  Turns out it’s really simple to do.  I should make it clear that I am using PC-BSD Hubble Edition 8.0 which is built on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 with KDE 4.3.5, and Firefox 3.5.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Firefox/3.5.7) .  If you’re using Firefox 2, this won’t work.

Open downloads in default KDE application

I put the following in /Programs/bin/openwith and made it executable with: chmod +x /Programs/bin/openwith

#!/bin/sh
kfmclient exec $1

Now save a file in Firefox and double-click it in the download manager, you will be asked what to open the file with.  Whatever you choose will be used to open all files in the download manager no matter what mime type.  If you have this set to Okular, for example, you’ll notice Okular will try to open all file types.

Firefox Preferences: Edit > Preferences

To change this, open the Firefox Preferences screen by clicking ‘Edit > Preferences’ from the menu.  Now click the Applications tab and click the Action Dropdown for content type: file.  In my screen shot you’ll see I have it set to ‘openwith’.

You can choose ‘other’, then click ‘File System’ and browse to where you saved the script, in my case, ‘/Programs/bin/’.

This should make the iXsystems front office very happy.

Wow, it’s been awhile… Good thing I have my twitter account posting weekly digests here!  I may change it to monthly digests. I don’t use twitter to post incremental updates about the texture, color, and smell of my poo.  Maybe I should.

I hear we’re a few days away from the next release of PC-BSD, Hubble Edition.  Hubble will be the release name for everything in the 8.x series instead of giving every dot release it’s own name, theme, and brand.  For those FreeBSD users out there wondering wtf PC-BSD was doing with dual localbases will be happy to hear that we ditched this method for a ports jail (or what we call the Ports Console).  New users can run into problems when installing ports on their base system, the Ports Console allows a user to install and run X apps (with sound too!) from the port jail. Yesterday, I used the port console to install the Mozilla Weave port, then copied the generated XPI to my home directory and installed it using the PBI version of FireFox.  In the future, I would love to see PBI’s of all FireFox plugins found in ports.

I am attending SCaLE this weekend, which despite popular belief, does not stand for Southern California alternative (to) Linux Expo.  I’ll be hanging out at the FreeBSD Booth with several friends and co-workers, so come by for a demo!  Also, freebsdgirl will be answering questions about sysinstall in regards to what it does better than the new PC-BSD installer.  Why? Because PC-BSD’s installer can be used for automated vanilla freebsd installs, too.  In fact, I don’t know why anyone would use sysinstall (the 90′s called, they want their installer back!) OUCH!  But in all seriousness, use our installer. Seriously.

Now time for some photo-fillerz!

Don't mistake this as a "friendly" game of ping pong, they are out for BLOOD.

One of our production lines featuring JoJo hard at work!

This is where the real problem solving occurs.

Custom BSD Artwork found in the iXsystems conference room. Left to right: FreeBSD Bobble, Beastie, and the PC-BSD Flame.

That’s all for now, I may post another blog after the tradeshow, or not! lol jk jk…