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.
Well, looks like this is my first post of the year… Happy 2010!! I bricked my Android phone about 2 months ago. I know, pretty lame. But all the custom Android builds needed testing, so I thought I’d take a chance. My first attempt was successful, which lead me to believe that rooting the Android was trivial. After a few JF roms, I decided to give Cyanogen a try. The feature I was craving was Apps2SD. It seemed silly that I couldn’t install apps to my SD card. I ended up bricking the phone while flashing hboot to a newer version. After this I lost the recovery console and the bootloader. Thankfully, Randi (freebsdgirl) had an extra G1 around while I wait for my replacement to ship. Thanks Randi!!
The monthly Bay Area FreeBSD User Group was at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View last night. We talked about why a user should run ZFS (thanks Xin Li), installing vanilla FreeBSD with the PC-BSD installer, and why sysinstall should die (thanks again Randi! lol jkjk!!!). Overall, it was an entertaining and informative evening.
I am going to Camp KDE in San Diego tonight and staying til Monday afternoon. Kris Moore will be presenting “KDE4 on PC-BSD: Creating a User-Friendly Desktop”. The schedule is posted here: http://camp.kde.org/schedule.html. I’ll be rocking the Lenovo S10-2 with PC-BSD 8.0 Beta. In fact, I am getting it loaded with PBI’s right now.
If I can keep the battery charged, I plan on using my Android to post some live video blogs to http://qik.com/jnixon. You can also watch the live stream or archived videos on this blog.
