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A: See MIME Types - Setting up MIME Types
.A: There are two probable causes;
text/plain
, text/uri-list
,
or STRING
target types.
If you believe that the problem is the second case, then the cause is most likely that the address portion of the URL string is assumed to be an empty string (which it is not always the case) and some applications (unfortunately) assume that. To properly parse URL strings, programs should derive from the following sample code:
/* Returns a pointer to the start of the path found in the
* given url_string or NULL on error.
*/
char *get_path_from_url_string(char *url_string)
{
char *strptr;
if(url_string == NULL)
return(NULL);
/* Incorrect protocol? */
if(strncmp(url_string, "file://", 7))
return(NULL);
/* Seek to first '/' character after the protocol
* portion of url_string.
*/
return((char *)strchr(url_string + 7, '/'));
}
A: Most of the keyboard keys used to control list item selecting and scrolling are based upon the default behavior of GTK's GtkCList widget. Any key operations that are above the GTK level of behavior are listed in Keys List.
A: Yes, however support for certain languages are incomplete (and thus not supported).
2003 Oct 13 - As of version 2.3.4, the status of language support is as follows:
To compile the application for languages other than English (the default) see HOWTO - Other Languages.
A: This is a bug that has been extensively researched and traced to the Window Manager level. The Window Managers Sawfish and Enlightenment have been demostrated to exhibit this behavior.
Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done at the Endeavour or GTK level, bug reports have already been filed with the Window Manager projects in question (July 2002).
A: Use the pointer in the following procedure:
This behavior has been known to work with GTK 1.2.10. You can also select multiple objects in step 1, subsequent steps work in the same way.
A: Although each file browser window only contains one directory tree list and one contents list, you can still obtain multiple file browser windows by going to Window->New File Browser to create additional windows and use the Window Manager to tile them next to each other.
You may also want to hide some of the bars (ie find bar, mount bar) to simplify the arrangement (look under the View menu).
A: There is an informal way:
Application
.
application/print-text
.
/usr/bin/lpr
for this example).
/usr/bin/lpr
"%s"
To print using this method:
This method works for text files only, image files and other types of files will require a different print program.
A: As of version 2.3.4 you can change the colors and fonts by going to Settings->Customize->General.
As of version 2.1.19 you can change the colors and fonts from the command line, the arguments are as follows:
--fg <color>
Specifies the foreground and text colors
--bg <color>
Specifies the background and base colors
--sfg <color>
Specifies the selected foreground color
--sbg <color>
Specifies the selected background color
--fn <font>
Specifies the font
Where <color>
is a standard X color spec such
as #ff0000
(which is red) and
<font>
is a standard X font name such as
-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
.
For example, if you want a green foreground
and dark blue background, run:
endeavour2 -fg "#00ff00" -bg "#000080"
For additional command line arguments run:
endeavour2 --help
A: Endeavour 2 uses a system called Interprocess (or InterPS). This system maintains only one process of Endeavour 2 at any given time.
It works by allowing the first execution of Endeavour 2
to create a lock (in $HOME/.endeavour2/lock
)
which records that process' process ID (PID). Subsequent
executions of Endeavour 2 will see that this lock exists and will
(instead of running normally) send an Interprocess Command to
the very first execution of Endeavour 2 (via the command file
$HOME/.endeavour2/cmd
and sending the signal
SIGUSR1
) to perform an operation such as
opening a new File Browser or Properties Dialog.
Therefore this has the affect of allowing you to execute Endeavour 2 from the command line multiple times but only have one process of Endeavour 2 running per user.
If you need to restart Endeavour 2 (i.e. because you have made
some changes to the configuration outside of the program and need them
to take affect) then you need to close all of
Endeavour 2's windows to ensure that the process has exited.
A: To uninstall Endeavour see HOWTO: Uninstall.
A: 2004 Nov 1 - After a few attempts to port Endeavour Mark II to GTK2, it was determined that GTK2 is not compatable with GTK, and therefore it would involve a complete rewrite of Endeavour Mark II which is currently no available in our resources.
2003 Nov 13 - We are currently waiting for the portability of GTK2 to be as compatable as GTK1. Currently GTK2 is not useable on some systems due to library compatability requirements that GTK2 requires while GTK1 does not require.We have high standards for minimal requirements we need to ensure that Endeavour does not take on an additional dependency that would render Endeavour unuseable to some users.
A: See Syncronizing with the System's Global MIME Types
A:
File Format
.
.tar.gz
, .tar.bz2
, .zip
,
etc).
Endeavour Archiver
.
For more information, see MIME Types.
A: This usually suggests that the device was not properly set up (or was never set up in the first place).
When you run Endeavour for the first time, it coppies all of the devices
from your global devices listing (usually from the file
/etc/fstab
) into its own listing of device
references with default values. The default values are often not
sufficient to properly detect, mount, unmount, eject, the device.
To set up Endeavour's device references, see Devices: Setting Up Device References.
A: There are two possibilities:
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