Running love files on Ubuntu

[iPoisonxL]

Hi! I have a small problem running love files. I installed love and all, but when I open a love file it just opens Archive Manager. Love even changed the little icon from a box to the LÖVE logo, so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Also, I can't use 'Open With' because Love isn't on the program list.

[T-Bone]

I've never had that problem on Ubuntu, but you can always try to run it from the terminal. Open a terminal, navigate to the folder containing the .love (or move the .love to your home forlder) and type

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love epicgamename.love

If that works, then at least you know Löve is installed correctly.

[iPoisonxL]

I've never had that problem on Ubuntu, but you can always try to run it from the terminal. Open a terminal, navigate to the folder containing the .love (or move the .love to your home forlder) and type

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love epicgamename.love

If that works, then at least you know Löve is installed correctly.

Yeah, that works, but it's a bit of a hassle to go all the way to desktop/workspace/lua/epicgame.

How to set default program?

[murks]

I can't tell you how ubuntu does this, but apparently ubuntu uses the file command to detect the type of file, so it sees the .love file as a zip file, and that's why it opens the archive manager. Just read up on how to do the file association stuff for your version of ubuntu.

[iPoisonxL]

I can't tell you how ubuntu does this, but apparently ubuntu uses the file command to detect the type of file, so it sees the .love file as a zip file, and that's why it opens the archive manager. Just read up on how to do the file association stuff for your version of ubuntu.

Ok thank you, cheers

[CrackedP0t]

Find the Love.desktop file in /usr/share/applications, and open it in a text editor.
Edit the "command" line to read "love %f" (without the quotes)
Right click on the .love file, select properties, and navigate to the "open with" tab.
Select LOVE.
Done!

[bartbes]

It seems newer versions of nautilus changed their behaviour wrt desktop files and file associations, I've modified it in the repo too, so next release it should be fixed.

[iPoisonxL]

I found a way to fix it, simply went into file association, found .love, and clicked "reset".

[bartbes]

The specific problem was love not showing up in the list, it's still set as a default association, but if you ever add another association you can't select love anymore. A bit awkward, to say the least. In any case, that should be fixed in the next release.

[iPoisonxL]

The specific problem was love not showing up in the list, it's still set as a default association, but if you ever add another association you can't select love anymore. A bit awkward, to say the least. In any case, that should be fixed in the next release.

OK thank you!