Open documents in libreoffice from chromium [SOLVED]

Question

Hi everyone,
When using chromium, I would like associate .doc(x), .ppt(x), etc. with libreoffice by default (wm - fluxbox).  If I try to click on the file once it has downloaded in chromium (on bar at bottom) I currently get:
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: firefox: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: mozilla: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: epiphany: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: konqueror: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: chromium-browser: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: google-chrome: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: links2: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: links: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: lynx: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 455: w3n: command not found
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'file.docx'
Here is a link to my full /uxr/bin/xdg-open: http://pastebin.com/tWzs9hqP
Here is the part around that line that looks to be of particular relevance:
IFS=":"
for browser in $BROWSER; do
if [ x"$browser" != x"" ]; then
browser_with_arg=`printf "$browser" "$1" 2>/dev/null`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
browser_with_arg=$browser;
fi
if [ x"$browser_with_arg" = x"$browser" ]; then
"$browser" "$1";
else eval '$browser_with_arg'$xdg_redirect_output;
fi
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exit_success;
fi
fi
done
exit_failure_operation_impossible "no method available for opening '$1'"
The browsers are defined later in the file:
# if BROWSER variable is not set, check some well known browsers instead
if [ x"$BROWSER" = x"" ]; then
BROWSER=links2:links:lynx:w3m
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
BROWSER=firefox:mozilla:epiphany:konqueror:chromium-browser:google-chrome:$BROWSER
fi
fi
I am a rather novice user so I am not sure how to edit the file (if I even should) to make this work.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: if i add "libreoffice:" to the end of the list of browsers it works like I would like it to.  This is obviously not the best method (I am not even certain why it is trying to open the file from other browsers, xdg-open file is quite intimidating) so any "better" suggestions would be very appreciated.
Last edited by Ipozya (2011-03-02 20:17:34)

Answer 1

Ipozya wrote:Thank you for the response.  I installed the package "perl-file-mimeinfo" but it can't find the command when I try to run mimopen.  Any ideas?
run (in a terminal)
mimeopen -d <file>
If the command you want to use does not appear in the list select "Other..." and type the command you want. This command will become the default for opening file of the type <file>.