{"id":566,"date":"2009-05-31T18:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2009-05-31T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T15:28:19","slug":"lifesaving-rox-tip-open-file-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/lifesaving-rox-tip-open-file-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"lifesaving ROX tip, open file:\/\/ urls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefox has the feature of keeping links to downloaded files as urls using the file:\/\/<\/em> pattern. For example: file:\/\/\/home\/user\/downloads\/test.zip<\/em>. If you choose ROX-Filer (\/usr\/bin\/rox) to open these files you will get an error: <\/p>\n

File doesn’t exist, or I can’t access it: file:\/\/\/home\/user\/downloads\/test.zip<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One way to correct the error is to follow the instructions of http:\/\/lovingthepenguin.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/use-rox-filer-to-open-containing.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Another way for Gentoo users, and much proper I guess, is to use \/usr\/bin\/roxuri<\/strong>. roxuri is actually a shell script that uses the “-U” option for ROX:<\/p>\n

-U, –url=URL\t\topen file or directory in URI form<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the non-Gentoo users, \/usr\/bin\/roxuri is:
\n#!\/bin\/sh
\nexec \"\/usr\/lib\/rox\/ROX-Filer\/AppRun\" -U \"$@\"<\/code><\/p>\n

Create it and make it executable.<\/p>\n

Go to Firefox Preferences\/Applications\/Content Type -> file and select \/usr\/bin\/roxuri as the default application.<\/p>\n

Now files from firefox downloads are handled correctly by rox which uses the proper applications to open them and containing folders open up with ROX-Filer<\/a>. That means that while “file” is handled by roxuri<\/em>, a .pdf will be opened by epdfview<\/a> or whatever else you have chosen ROX to open pdf files with.<\/p>\n

Both solutions work on ROX version 2.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firefox has the feature of keeping links to downloaded files as urls using the file:\/\/ pattern. For example: file:\/\/\/home\/user\/downloads\/test.zip. If you choose ROX-Filer (\/usr\/bin\/rox) to open these files you will get an error: File doesn’t exist, or I can’t access it: file:\/\/\/home\/user\/downloads\/test.zip One way to correct the error is to follow the instructions of http:\/\/lovingthepenguin.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/use-rox-filer-to-open-containing.html […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[37,115,114,601,595,103,116],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux","tag-bug","tag-file","tag-firefox","tag-gentoo","tag-linux","tag-rox","tag-tip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t