How to associate filetype in konqueror

[Larry Howe]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 12:41, airplays55 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I've written a perl songplayer program that I want to
> use when I click on a link to a midi file in
> konqueror.
>
> I've gone into file associations and updated the
> mimetype audio/x-midi (for filename pattern *.mid)
> with the command /path/to/play.pl %u. But when
> clicking on a midi link (that I put on my localhost to
> eliminate delay), the cursor acts busy for awhile and
> the task bar shows "play.pl" with the rotating
> hourglass and nothing happens.
>
> My program is an X program that displays a playlist
> window, and I never see it appear.  What am I doing wrong?

You probably checked this already, but what happens if you try that same 
command line from the, uh, command line? How about from start / run command?

Larry
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