Re: Gimp and opening partitions...again STOPPED

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 17:52 -0800, ec wrote:
> Well, I guess I will have to reinstall the distro.
>
> Let me repeat again:
>
> 1. There is NO 'open with' on right clicking
>
> 2. Instead of Konqueror opening the hd icons and
> files, Gimp does it and naturally gives an error
> message similiar to 'I give up, not my bag of
> tea"....being funny about it.
>
> 3. I haven't the foggiest what I changed that disabled
> Konqueror's ability to open files.
>
> 4. I 'just found out' that IF I first open Konqueror,
> then tell it to open location, I can get to any
> directory in Mepis, and it will.
>
> BUT I cannot open any other partiton UNLESS I know the
> path completely to the file!
>
> So I will 'limp along' for now.
>
> Thanks for the help, some of which is above my 'end
> user' level. Oh, well.
>
> Maybe I will 'bag and tag' this unit down to the
> installfest if I am available that Saturday and maybe
> both problems can be solved then. No drivers license
> or vehicle to transport on, but bus rt's 76 and 92
> will get me close. Will have to beg a monitor tho. It
> has been there once in 2003.
>
>
> Let's end this topic as either I have no clue what
> someone is talking about or 'open with' isn't an
> option on it now. It WAS, but has disappeared at the
> same time the Gimp raised its ugly? head.
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if you create another user on the system and log on as that user does it
work correctly?

if so, then the problem is in your $HOME directory and perhaps you can
simply (as root) mv your $HOME to $HOME.bak - cp -R /etc/skel $HOME;
chown YOUR_USER_NAME:YOUR_MAIN_GROUP -R $HOME and then log on as
yourself and you can copy back email, documents etc. from your backed up
stuff in $HOME.bak

Probably a lot easier than re-installing

Craig

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