LÖVE

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.

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

T-Bone wrote: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?

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.

murks wrote: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

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!

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.

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

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.

bartbes wrote: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!