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[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden>]

Andrea Gamba wrote:

> Exactly! that is the problem I have been having with texmacs on Ubuntu
> during the last 2-3 years. The .tm mime type is not recognized. The
> procedure to have it recognized is more or less the one described here:
> 
>
http://adrianus.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/howto-add-new-mime-types-and-icon-for-
> visio-document-in-ubuntu/
> 
> By applying these instructions I succeeded several times in fixing the
> problem, but any upgrade destroyed the result.
> 

Are the mimetypes something specific to the distribution? Does it work on
other distributions such as Redhat by default?

> I think that it should be the job of the .deb install script to add
> correctly all the mime types and icons in the right places.

I do not know much about mime types. I will try to learn about them this
weekend and see what I can do.

> 
> I could not yet install a functioning texmacs 1.07 from the deb, but the
> problem with the mime types is exactly the one I stumbled upon for such a
> long time.

You have not answered my previous questions. What guile libs are you using?
Are you able to get rid of the crashes by moving ~/.TeXmacs to some other
name?

hth
raju
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