[CentOS] Strange behavior from OO Writer

John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com
Sat Aug 25 17:31:12 UTC 2007


On Friday 24 August 2007 18:55:13 Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> On 8/24/07, Steven Vishoot <sir_funzone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > LOL! I must say you do have the strangest things
> > happening to you.
> >
> > Could it be all caused by operator error? Hmmmmmmmmm.
> > What do you think?
>
> I won't rule it out as yet.
>
> However, when the file won't open (or writer even start up) from the
> command line using gnome-open <filename>, but it will with gnome-open
> <filename1>, when I open the writer from the applications menu and go
> to File->Open and select the file and it does not open but the renamed
> file does, and when I open a Nautilus window and have the exact same
> results, I have to wonder how much operator action could be involved.
>
> FTR, I checked the file and directory permissions - identical and
> correct (well, yeah, if I just rename the file between the names and
> one works and the other doesn't...).
>
> I know there's a funky permissions problem somewhere in some conf file
> or other on the machine because a lot of things don't work quite right
> at the moment, but so far I haven't heard a clue (e.g., previously
> posted issue with not being able to open pdfs, jpgs and certain other
> files directly from nautilus but okay with right-click->Open With),
> but at least they open one way or another - this one doesn't.
>
> Besides, if the solution was that easy or obvious, I wouldn't have
> raised it here (not any more).
>
> mhr
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