On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@pacbell.net> wrote:
When I click on the file foo.abw in the Desktop I would expect the abiword application to start with foo.abw open.  But actually firefox opens with two tabs and two dialog boxes, both of which state:
You have chosen to open
foo.abw
which is an AbiWord document (10.0 KB)
from /home/jonrysh/desktop
What should Firefox do with this file?
O Open with AbiWord (default)
O ...
The preferences in System Settings->File Associations all look OK.  Clicking on any other file in the Desktop works OK.  What's going on?
System is Fedora17 with KDE 4.8.4.

Thanks - jon


Hi Jon:

Either type $abiword foo.abw at the command line or open abiword and chose file/open; the manner in which you are doing it above will not work. This is not MS Windows.