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[1ColdBeer]

Hi,
I'm trying to change the rox run action so images open in XNview. XNview works great standalone. Tried right click > run action and changed to xnview. Now when i click BlaBla.jpg XNview opens but the image variable is lost in the shuffle.

Now the run action line only shows the variable with no program name. I tried to change it back to mpaint with no luck.

Lots of reading, poking, proding, clicking and scrolling has not fixed it. Any ideas sure would be great.

Thanks,
1ColdBeer

[Guest]

Did you try /usr/local/share/Choices/MIME-info

[GuestToo]

you should be able to right click any jpg, click Set Run Action, and either type in mtpaint so it looks like mtpaint "$1", or find mtpaint in /usr (you can type rox -s `which mtpaint` and drag it to the Set Run Action window

i usually set the rox Run Action for jpgs, gifs, and pngs to xli, because usually i just want to look at the picture ... if i want to open it with mtpaint, i usually use Send To

[Jesse]

Hi,

if you would like a real solution, to let you do what you want, try this one:

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/RoxFileSelector

Jesse

[1ColdBeer]

Hi,
I tried XnView from the command line and found the path was broke. I tracked that down and found that /root/my-roxapps/XnView/bin/xnview "$1" in the Set run action > Enter a shell command box fixes my problem.

How do i append or link the path in Puppy?

Thanks

[MU]

# echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/my-applications/bin
#

So create a symlink in one of the folders, that is in the PATH:

# ln -s /root/my-roxapps/XnView/bin/xnview /root/my-applications/bin/xnview

Now you have a new entry /root/my-applications/bin/xnview that is in the PATH.
It does not waste space, as it is just a link, not a copy.

Mark

[1ColdBeer]

Hi,

[MU]

Oh, I see...

just installed it.

there is already a symlink /usr/bin/xnview, but it has a path-error.

Replace it with this shellscript:

[1ColdBeer]

Hi,
That did it.

Thanks again!