application change

greetings,
this may sound silly, but how do i change the default application when opening files from e-mail attachements … case:
i receive an excel file, and gnumeric wants to open it … i’d like to change that to openoffice … i tried the ‘dateizuordnung’ in the ‘systemeinstellung’ (personal settings), but it’s still prompting for gnumeric … theo

  • topitz,

which mail application?

Uwe

mozilla thunderbird … theo

topitz wrote:
> mozilla thunderbird … theo

i GUESS TBird is picking up the system’s default extension type
association and shunting .xl attachments off to gnumeric…

here (using KDE3) i would change that by opening Personal Settings,
Configure Desktop and then click on KDE Components > File
Associations > Application > msexcel and then ADD OpenOffice
Spreadsheet into the Application Preference Order box, and move it up
above gnumeric (or delete gnuermic)…

there (since you didn’t specify which desktop you use) i don’t know
how to do it…


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i already changed most of office file associations to openoffice in the personal settings …i guess i missed one … probably have got to go through all of them 1 by 1 … thanks man … theo

( stupid website keeps making me resign in all the time)
ok I am trying to find the personal settings settings lol because I also would like to change a few default things all I see is my task bar and computer if I click on the computer on the left colum I see system under there is help control panel,yast, install software, lockscreen ,logout and shut down. now if I go into yast control it shows nothing about personal settings
so where are my personal settings lol
what I want to do is change my default torrent client to ktorrent but I am not sure where to find it

On 09/10/2008 Shadowmeph wrote:
> what I want to do is change my default torrent client to ktorrent but
> I am not sure where to find it

Are you on kDE?
Right click any torrent file, “Open with”, search for ktorrent, check “Remember application association…”

Uwe