[ALUG] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Horrible file browser - how can I change it?

Eur Ing Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Mon Feb 19 09:53:06 GMT 2007


On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:29:16AM +0000, Martyn Drake wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Eur Ing Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> >For some applications there appears to be no alternative though - e.g.
> >Firefox and VMWare.  For me it's particularly annoying with VMware as
> >I rarely restart my VMware guests and when I do that awful file open
> >dialog opens up and I can never find where my VMWare images are kept.
> 
> Create a shell script that launches the image(s) whenever you need to
> do so from the command line (or create a desktop link to the shell
> script).  That's what I do at work, anyway.  We're using VMware
> Player.
> 
Yes, good idea, I have lots of little shell scripts that do this for
other applications.

-- 
Chris Green



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