1. Eu on Ubuntu
- Posted by irv May 27, 2019
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Recent versions of Ubuntu have an attitude problem: they won't let you associate a program (such as Euphoria) with files (such as .ex files!) so that you can run them from nautilus with Eu.
There's a fairly simple fix:
$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/euphoria.desktop
Enter the following text:
[Desktop Entry] Name=Euphoria Comment=Euphoria 4.1 beta 2 Exec=/usr/local/bin/eui Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/mongoose.png Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Development; StartupNotify=true NoDisplay=true
Save this new euphoria.desktop file, and then:
$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
scroll down to the line which starts: text/plain=gedit.desktop
change that to: text/plain=euphoria.desktop
Save, right-click on an .ex file in nautilus, now it should show "Open with Euphoria" as the default option. Left-click should run the program. Of course, this must be a gui program, not just a command-line program, which should be run from a terminal.
If most of your Eu programs are text-mode, you can change the Terminal=false line in the euphoria.desktop file to Terminal=true.
Now, if someone knows how to change the association for the "open with other" programs to include Wee, instead of LibreOffice -writer, (how useless would that be?) please post it.
