Luke,
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:41:31 -0800, Luke Ravitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 2005-02-10 22:35, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:How do I change the context menu to remove all traces of "totem" or "Totem media player"?From the context menu, select "Properties". Select the "Open With" tab. There you can select an app and click on remove to take it off the context menu. You can also pick which of the apps in the menu should be your default. (The changes will apply to all files of the type of the file on which you right clicked to get the context menu.)
Tried all that, but can't remove the "original default" of Totem Media Player. If I select that one, the "remove" button is unselectable.
...Ric
I had a similar problem, and the solution (such as it was) was 1) convoluted and 2) not comprehensive, but here you go, for what it's worth. I had also installed Totem to see if it had gotten better, which it hadn't, and I wanted to remove it as an association with movie files, as well as make MPlayer the new default, as it was generally working better than Xine (but they work differently, so I needed them both to test some issues with "weird" movie files I was trying to re-encode).
Somewhere in the GNOME Control Center-- I think in Advanced, but I have no access to GNOME atm, there is a module for setting MIME types, called something like "File types and Programs". Find it and hie ye there.
Now, the freaky thing about some movie file extensions is that they are listed as *two types* of movie, and one takes priority over the other. For instance, iIrc (I am doing this from memory), *.mov files are both /x-quicktime and /x-msvideo, and /x-msvideo is the "boss" of the setting.
So when I selected the /x-quicktime extenstions, and tried to select and remove Totem as an association for this movie type, I received a dialog telling me that I had to change the association of x-msvideo before I could be allowed to change the association of x-quicktime (the specific MIME types may not be correct, but that is the sequence of events).
So what I had to do was 1) go to the "primary" MIME type as per the dialog; 2) make some other movie player the default "open with" program for that type (often by moving it to the head of the list of available associated programs; iIrc, there is no "set as default" button, but the first program in the list is considered the default, and there is a "Move up/move down" facility to manage the list; 3) attempt to remove Totem from the list entirely (which did not necessarily work-- Totem itself seemed to be unremoveable from some MIME-type listings as long as it remained installed, but since it was now at the bottom of the list of available applications for the MIME type, it was "OK" that it was still there.
However, once Totem was removed or set aside from the "primary" MIME-type listing, it could be removed from the "secondary" MIME-type listing without complaints from the GNOME mime manager.
So, as I said, convoluted, and not comprehensive, but it more or less got the job done.
Hope this helps.
Holly
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