John Please post the script. --Rick On October 13, 2020 12:25:40 p.m. EDT, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: >I've a small script I wrote in Python / tkinter to caption jpeg files. > >I'd like to have Nautilus/Caja (both seem to give similar issues) >launch this >under "open with". Looking at some web postings, there are different >recommendations, >such as creating a shell script first. And it seems I need to look in >the mimetypes.list >file and point to an appropriate .desktop file. > >The usual Right-Click / (File) Properties / Open With allows me to add >a pointer to either >my script or a bash script that calls it. But when I try "open with >other application" and >choose one of these, nothing happens. I suspect I've not got an >appropriate .desktop file, >and/or not included it correctly in the mimetypes. > >Can anyone point me to a good reference or tutorial on this. I can get >my script to >run under Double Commander, but would like to be able to run it under >the "standard" >file manager(s). I suspect a lot of web postings are incomplete. > >Best, > >John Nash > >To unsubscribe send a blank message to >linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com