Thanks, Israel -- that's the sort of next-step info I want.
On 1/15/2015 2:39 PM, Israel wrote:
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?
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