On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Andreas Rönnquist <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:01:18 -0300
> "Miguel Gaiowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble playing any files whose names have blank spaces,
> > such as "MythBusters - S01E13 - Buried in Concrete, Jet Taxi, Daddy
> > Longlegs.avi".
> >
> > It says: "Failed to open file Mythbusters%20-%20S01..............".....
> >
> > The weird thing is that it only happens when I try to launch Mplayer by
> > double-clicking the file. When I open mplayer from a command line it
> works
> > just fine.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> Try changing your /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop
>
> - the line Exec=gmplayer %(some letter)
>
> I have Exec=gmplayer %F, and this made it work for me.
>
> (I think I had %U there previously, but I am not sure.)
>
>
Yep, that works! Thanks


>
> --
> Andreas Rönnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>


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Miguel Fco. A. de Mattos Gaiowski

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