Sure. It's been up since my Sept. talk on the linux-ottawa site: https://wiki.linux-ottawa.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:presentations:2020:jnjpgcom.zip Zipped because the wiki doesn't like executables. JN On 2020-10-13 7:59 p.m., Rick Leir wrote: > 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 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