#####[Files]##### This should be a "no-brainer," but just in case, there are several ways to open a file in GNU/Linux. Here are a few of them: 1. Click or double-click a file from a file manager and just let the system decide on what the default program to use. 2. Right-click the file and select "Open Width" to manually choose what program to open the file with. 3. Drag-and-drop the application on top of a .desktop file or on one of the items on JWM's desktop. In other words, you can drag and drop a document from the file manager onto the AbiWord item on the JWM desktop to open that document with AbiWord. (And the slightly more complex ways...) 4. From a terminal, '[program] /path/to/file.ext' 5. From a terminal, 'exo-open /path/to/file.ext' to open that file with the whatever the default is. 6. From a terminal, 'open /path/to/file.ext' to use a script made specifically for PsychOS486 for use in the console (TTY). 7. Sacrifice a chicken and beat it with a hammer. That's joke. Please don't do this. If your file does not open it is probably because the appropriate program needed is not installed or you can try to convert it to a format that a program does support. When in doubt, run 'apropos [search something]' to look through man page summaries to see if the converter exists. For example, 'apropos powerpoint' results in listing 'catppt' for displaying MS PowerPoint files in the terminal, to which you can redirect to a file via 'catppt /path/to/file.ppt > output.txt' and then finally open that with a compatible program. I would also like to note that in JWM, you can right-click a file and use "Set Run Action..." to tell the file manager (ROX-Filer) what to do when either that file or all similar files are clicked. Example for a txt file: defaulttexteditor "$1" ...The "$1" part essentaily means the file that you want to open. If for some reason "$1" doesn't work for you, try "$@". In XFCE, the Thunar file manager is used and to change how to open a file you can either right-click a file and change this in the "Properties," or you can set a Thunar Custom Action via "Edit --> Configure custom actions..." for even more control as it adds a menu item to the right-click for Thunar. PsychOS486 includes a few useful Thunar Custom Actions for you that you can also hopefully learn from if creating your owm.