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Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:30 am**

I use pcmanfm 0.5.2 and I want to have nano open text files when I click them, how can I do this?

THANKS

Posted: **Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:59 pm**

Hi,

This is quite easy. As often in LXDE you have to use a *.desktop file. This files are staring applications and are listed in the "open with"-dialog. One of these should work for you.

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Nano
Comment=Simple text editor
Exec=nano %f
Icon=nano
Terminal=true
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Nano
Comment=Simple text editor
Exec=lxterminal -e nano %f
Icon=nano
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true

Place it in "/usr/share/applications" or in "~/.local/share/applications" and name it "nano.desktop". Now you should be able to choose Nano to open you file.

maces

Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:21 pm**

Cool, this one worked:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Nano
Comment=Simple text editor
Exec=xterm -e nano %f
Icon=nano
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/plain
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true

I did have to right click the file and place it in and then it worked for all of them....

THANKS

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