Question

On Gnome/KDE you can select in which application you want to open file (Right click on file -> Open With -> Other). Is it possible open file that way, but from console?

For example: you print ‘ file.ext’ and instead of opening in concrete application, there are that application selection window forced and then users chooses – starts selected program.

I tried to figure out that myself, but not found anything like that.

‘edit file.ext’ doesn’t fits my needs, because it starts preferred application and you cannot choose which. And also on my desktop it says: ‘Error: no ‘edit’ mailcap rules found for type ‘image/jpeg’

So, am I able to forse that ‘open with’ window from console? If yes, can you say how? Both on windows and mac you can do such things.

//edit at 2009-02-10 14:17

Thank you very much for answers. Command will be used in program code, so unfortunately probably I would not be able to make some extra bash scripts.

Answer 1

For GNOME:

gnome-open <file> 

For KDE:

kfmclient exec <file> 

These commands should open up the <file> in the preferred application in GNOME or KDE respectively, although I don’t have an installation of either to test on.