WRT to the Acrobat issue, it used to be the that plugin only searched
the PATH for the acroread binary. Creating a symlink for acroread in
/usr/bin solves this problem.
Theron Dekok wrote:
Hi Ken,
> Will re-installing the StarOffice packages "break" anything regarding my
OpenOffice installation?
The install might change a few links (ie /usr/bin/soffice) but I can't
recall. Worst case you will need to remove/re-install OOo.
I have had users report that they are unable to open Acrobat files
(i.e. .pdf files) but I don't see a problem doing from the Nautilus
file explorer myself. I think they are seeing the problem from
Firefox...
This sounds like it could be a plugin issue - check that it has been
installed:
# ln -s /usr/lib/AdobeReader/Browser/sparcsolaris/nppdf.so
/path/to/firefox/plugins
Cheers,
-Theron
Thanks again...
-Ken
Theron Dekok wrote:
I'd suggest re-installing the StarOffice packages, updating the
mime-database and seeing if that fixes the issue.
When we install OpenOffice.org on our Sun Ray servers we typically
remove the StarOffice icons and edit
/usr/share/applications/star.desktop to reflect OOo. We haven't had
any issues doing it this way.
In your earlier note you asked about Acrobat - is that file
association broken also?
-Theron
Kenneth Bourn wrote:
Theron,
Thanks for the response...
I did remove the StarOffice packages before installing OpenOffice.
Do you think this is what broke the file associations and is there
any way to fix it? What I'm finding is that the file associations
for .doc and .xls files works but not for .odt or .ods and other
file types.
Thanks again for any more advice you or anyone else can provide...
I am doing some Gnome reading about the mime database, etc. to see
if I can't figure this out.
Does anyone know if file associations can be controlled through the
Sun Desktop manager?
TIA,
-Ken
Theron Dekok wrote:
I know that for OpenOffice.org there are a few extra steps to
configure file associations. After installing OOo, update the mime
database:
root# update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
Then, ensure nautilus launches OOo instead of StarOffice
root# ln -s /usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.3 /usr/bin/staroffice
One thing I've tried to do in the past was remove the StarOffice pkgs
but that only broke file associations in bad way.
Hope that helps.
-Theron
Kenneth Bourn wrote:
Hello,
We have a Sun Ray user base installed of about 20 users
currently. One problem I am constantly having complaints about is
that users are having issues with the JDS desktop regarding file
assocations. I know this is not necessarily Sun Ray specific, but
thought that someone on this list must have had to deal with this.
Basically, a typical problem is that the user will use the "File
Browser" to find a file. Say, for example the file is an
OpenOffice document with a ".odt" file extension. After
double-clicking on the file the user gets a "No Action Associated"
pop-up saying:
"There is not action associated with "<file>.odt". You can
configure GNOME to associate applications with file types. Do
you want to associate an application with this file type now?"
[Cancel] [Associate Application]
The problem is that most of our users are not JDS guru's or even
Solaris guru's and do not know which program or even if they know
the program they don't know the full path to the program to create
the assocation. We see similar problems with .pdf files, etc.
I have a simple Sun Ray configuration with two Sun Ray servers.
Both are running Solaris 10 11/06 with the latest patch cluster
installed through October.
Does anyone on this list have experience or know-how for setting
up file associations for JDS on a *global *basis for a server? I
would like a method by which I can setup all of the file
extensions and associate them with specific applications (i.e.
OpenOffice, Acroread, etc) for both of my Sun Ray servers so that
my users can just double-click on these file icons in the File
Browser window and the proper application will automatically open
the file.
Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance...
-Ken
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