How Do I Choose A Program To Open A File (FireFTP)

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How Do I Choose A Program To Open A File (FireFTP)

Planet13

5:46 pm on Dec 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

How exactly do I navigate to a program when using FireFtp and it asks "Choose a program to open this file?"

If you are familiar with FireFTP, you probably know that you can right click a file on the remote server and it will give you a dialog box asking you to pick an application to open that file.

That will by default start at the desktop of the current user.

How do I then navigate to, say, Geany, or to Brackets?

I'm using linux mint 13, by the way.

Thanks in advance.

BTW: Not 100% sure it is actually doable in Linux. Also, just a reminder that this is different than using the file manager to navigate to a LOCAL file and choose a program that way. I am trying to use the navigation that is built into fireftp.

graeme_p

5:02 am on Dec 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

I do not use FireFTP, but have you tried going to the executable for that application: e.g. /usr/bin/geany

I just use my file manager to manage files on servers as well. The only complication I have found is that if I open a file in a non KDE application from Dolphin changes are only saved locally until you exit the application, at which opening Dolphin asks whether to upload the changes. I am not sure what happens with a KDE app and non-KDE file manager.

Planet13

6:01 am on Dec 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

Thanks, Graeme:

I was not sure where the executable was...been a lot on my mind lately.

I have not tried using the file manager for ftp yet. I always found FireFTP so useful that I still use firefox. Otherwise, I would use opera or chrome (I like them better for debugging).

graeme_p

11:13 am on Dec 18, 2014 (gmt 0)

IN general, to find an executable use the which command. You need to know the name by which you call the application from the command line:

which geany