Re: "Double-click apps"
Re: "Double-click apps"
- Subject: Re: "Double-click apps"
- From: Ernest Prabhakar <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:49:24 -0800
Hi Torrey,
1. Everything in /usr/X11R6/bin and most other places you are likely
to find X11 binaries will be in a directory owned by root. You can't
use "Get Info" to change the default application in a directory owned
by root.
I suppose that might be a problem, but I was actually talking about
something quite different. In particular, I was talking about setting
the default for -all- X11 binaries. To do that, you need to change a
file that has an -explicit- extension of '.x11app'. Since UNIX
binaries can implicitly be either Terminal or X11 binaries, Launch
Services won't know which until after it is double-clicked, so that
information can't be used in Get Info.
Since nobody (currently) ships binaries with an explicit extension, I
believe you need to do something like the following:
1. Create a simple file which ends in '.x11app'
$ touch foo.x11app
2. Open that with Get Info in the Finder
$ open .
Command-I or Control-Click
3. Select the application
4. Set that as default ("Always open" or 'Change All").
That should make every X11 binary run with the launcher of your choice.
Perhaps a little convoluted, but that's the price we pay for
stretching the paradigm.
Please let me know if that doesn't work.
-- Ernie P.
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