On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:56:04PM -0500, Angus D Madden wrote: > I need to find a good graphical file manager for my family pc. I am > aware of two choices: gmc and nautilus. > > Right now they are using gmc. I like it because it is simple and > straightforward. The only problem is that I have not been able to > associate mime-types with applications. Say, for example, that I want > .doc and .sxw files to open with StarOffice when they are clicked. I > have tried to do it in the gnome control center and also by editing > mc.keys directly. I have googled and searched the entire gnome site, and > got the impression that people are aware of this problem, but not > dealing with it because gnome is standardizing on nautilus.
My solution in using Mime types with mc is the following
section in /etc/mc.ext:
---<snip>---
### Default ###
# Default target for anything not described above
default/*
Open=see %d/%p
Title=%p
---<snap>---
I also removed any application specific stuff out of /etc/mc.ext.
works quite well for me.
-timo
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