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Open files besides openoffice with 2 clix in nautilius

Asked by linguistic76

Hello,

I am looking at my file manager and when I double click on a .odt document the file opens up nicely with open office. But when I double click on a .txt. or .html file I get the message

 "Do you want to run '. . .txt', or display its contents?

 . . .txt is an executable file"

Then I have the radio buttons 'Run in Terminal' 'Display' 'Cancel' 'Run' "

 Then another box quickly pops up saying "Opening ' . . .txt' You can stop this operation by clicking cancel"

My goal is to double click a .txt file and for the text editor to open it up. I have the same issue when opening up a .html. Sure I can right click get the menu and open the file.

Insight on this problem is kindly apreciated.

All the best,

Mike

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

thats an easy one. open up nautilus and go to Edit->Preferences then click on the Behavior tab and change the "executable text files" from Ask each time, to Vew executable text files when they are opened.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

add:
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus-open-file.html.en
Behavior Preferences
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/gosnautilus-56.html.en

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linguistic76 (linguistic76) said : 		#3

That was awesome people. Thanks.

Bluefish didn't work at first, but then I found a workaround here on launchpad. Thank you.

All the best,

Mike

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linguistic76 (linguistic76) said : 		#4

Thanks Sam, that solved my question.

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kanub (gwd0fqy02) said : 		#5

i come from a Windows background and most of my .txt files had the executable flag set so Linux thinks the need to be executed. what i did was run the following command.
WARNING: this recursively converts ALL files to non-executable. i didn't have any executables in my home directory right after setting up Ubuntu.

find ~ -type f -exec chmod -x {} \;