You could of course use: /usr/share/applications/defaults.list This hold a bunch of the values you'd normally set using xdg-mime It usually contains stuff like:
application/rtf=libreoffice-writer.desktop application/tab-separated-values=libreoffice-calc.desktop application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3=libreoffice-calc.desktop application/vnd.ms-excel=libreoffice-calc.desktop application/vnd.ms-word=libreoffice-writer.desktop Which you can change to whatever you like. This should effect using things like: xdg-open mydoc.rtf from the terminal, and probably from any application that looks at xdg mime types. The first line in my above excerpt defines that libreoffice-writer.desktop will handle this. On 01/15/2015 10:38 AM, John Hupp wrote: > OK, a happy discovery. LxSession Default Apps does not do the same > thing as R-Click: Open With: <app> + checking "Always use ..." > > If I do the latter with an .odt file, then LxSession Default Apps > still has Documents: AbiWord, but odt docs open with LibreOffice. And > abw docs open with AbiWord. > > I see now also that the properties of an odt file show File Type: > OpenDocument Text. The format has its own mime type which can be used > (but is not used by default) as the basis for the kind of granular > control I wanted. > > So lxsession-default-apps and pcmanfm are apparently doing something > different in the back end with mime types. I read somewhere that > there are perhaps 4 different mime type configuration files which are > respected in some hierarchy. > > On 1/15/2015 10:17 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: >> You can set this at*lxsession-default-apps* >> *Menu > Preferences > LxSession Default Apps >> * >> OR >> >> *Right click* on the file you want to set. Let say, a Document.odt. >> On the menu, choose *Properties*. At the Properties windows, select >> the software you want to open as default on the "*Open With*" >> combobox (drop down menu)... Then hit *OK*. >> >> Double click the file to see if works... >> >> >> >> 2015-01-14 17:57 GMT-02:00 John Hupp <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> I don't understand mime types very well, but it seems like the >> net effect as implemented is that they don't result in very >> granular control. >> >> To be specific, I find that if I use LibreOffice Writer to create >> an .odt file, a double-click on the file in pcmanfm results in >> AbiWord opening the file. >> >> I would like LibreOffice to open odt files, AbiWord to open abw >> files, and leafpad to open plain text files. But >> lxsession-default-apps merely sets a "Document" launcher. >> >> Can set up finer control to open some files according to their >> extension? >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> >> >> > > > -- Regards
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