The issue is with Google-Chrome. I purged Chrome, rebooted and was able to set the default for the xml file to gedit.
After installing chrome again, the same behavior of chrome stealing the default and not allowing any change continued. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1460483 Title: File Properties "Open-With" Won't Set Default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1460483/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
