Re: jpegs throwing up 'ambiguous filetype' dialog
- From: Grégory SCHMITT <gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:59:17 -0500
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> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:25:47 +0100
> De: Walther Maldonado <walther.md@xxxxxxxxx>
> À: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sujet: Re: jpegs throwing up 'ambiguous filetype' dialog
> I often bump into this issue when browsing Fat/NTFS partitions, where
> image files get the "what would you like to do...?" dialogue since
> they are both executable and recognised by extension. How about a
> configuration setting that goes something like: "Don't attempt to
> execute files with a known extension"? That would "solve" the
> ambiguity problem when dealing with this scenario (plus, I am not
> sure what kind of executable file with a known extension you'd really
> want to execute, even .exe files would be opened with wine rather
> than be executed directly).
Regarding files appearing as executables, you may try to change your
mount options in your fstab and look at parameters such as umask,
dmask and fmask. FYI, these are my parameters:
vfat
rw,user,noauto,iocharset=utf8,utf8,umask=111,dmask=002,fmask=113,uid=0,gid=100,quiet
0 0
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Grégory SCHMITT <mailto:gy.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx>
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