Scripts are being opened as plain text by default

[Ryukenden]

Scripts are being opened as plain text by default in Xubuntu 8.04. When i click on a script, it opens OpenOffice.org. When i view the properties of a script, it says it's a plain text document.
How do i fix this?

[mali2297]

Scripts are being opened as plain text by default in Xubuntu 8.04. When i click on a script, it opens OpenOffice.org. When i view the properties of a script, it says it's a plain text document.
How do i fix this?

Are they executable?

Right-click on the file icon, go to Properties -> Permissions and check that Allow this file to run as program is enabled.

[Ryukenden]

The Permissions page does not show an option to allow the file to run as program, but i can run the script in a terminal.

[mali2297]

The Permissions page does not show an option to allow the file to run as program, but i can run the script in a terminal.

But are they executable?

In the terminal, check

ls -l yourscript.sh

You should see something like -rwxr-xr-x. Otherwise make it executable with the command

chmod -v +x yourscript.sh

[Ryukenden]

gabriel@52X:/media/Gabriel/Os meus documentos/Ficheiros/Programas/wuala$ ls -la
total 204
drwxr-xr-x 4 gabriel gabriel 4096 2008-10-05 17:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 gabriel gabriel 4096 2008-10-05 19:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 1247 2008-10-05 19:44 HavelaarPrefs
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 141123 2008-10-04 19:41 loader2.jar
drwxr-xr-x 4 gabriel gabriel 4096 2008-10-05 17:12 Local2
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 1585 2008-10-05 17:13 Machine.dat
drwxr-xr-x 2 gabriel gabriel 4096 2008-10-05 20:23 Meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 13788 2008-10-05 17:14 NodeTable.ctm
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 4292 2008-10-04 19:45 Prefs0.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 127 2008-10-04 19:45 Prefs.index
-rw-r--r-- 1 gabriel gabriel 0 2008-10-04 19:41 Prefs.lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gabriel gabriel 177 2008-10-04 19:41 wuala
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gabriel gabriel 183 2008-10-04 19:41 wualacmd

I can't run wuala from thunar. I opens OpenOffice.org

[mali2297]

OK, seems strange.

Looking at the path "/media/Gabriel/Os meus documentos/Ficheiros/Programas/wuala", is the directory on some other disk?

Perhaps you can try moving the wuala folder.

[Ryukenden]

It happens regardless of the location. It also affects wualacmd.