How to open a .m file by a double-click, on Ubuntu 12.04

We tried some things, but it didn't work... (because by default it doesn't work as it used to work with Windows)

[Daniel Shub]

Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't provide enough information. What DE are you using (Unity, KDE, Gnome, etc.). What program do you want the m-file to open in (MATLAB, emacs, vi, etc).

Answer 1

[Mark]

For Ubuntu 16.04 this is different so.

What worked for me is appending %F to the end of Exec=some/path which is in my matlab.desktop file.

Locate the matlab.desktop file its either in

~/.local/share/applications

or

~/usr/share/applications

I found the solution here Also if you don't have a matlab.desktop file then you may want to create one link to some relevant help to create launcher icon

[Farid Tavakkolmoghaddam]

Thank you! I tested this method works on Ubuntu 18.04 and it worked for me.

[Kosha]

Could you please explain what exactly you did? I can't make it work. Could you maybe copy the content of your .desktop file?

Answer 2

[Grzegorz Knor]

This might help:

http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=300