On 04/11/2018 13:14, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
[...]
> it'll pick one of whatever app says it can open that mime type...
> whatever comes first that it finds,
That was my understanding also. But it doesn't:
* /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache says (simplified)
application/pdf=qpdfview.desktop;evince.desktop;gimp.desktop;
because *I* want them to open with qpdfview but evince disagreed
*and then* GIMP stuck its oar in and added itself
* if I type the command xdg-open foobar.pdf it opens in evince
* if I double-click on foobar.pdf in efm it opens in qpdfview
* if the genealogical application Gramps generates a PDF report,
it opens GIMP to display it!
Obviously E is doing it right and the others are wrong :-)
> UNLESS you happen to change that. and it's as simple as opening that
> mime type via efm and using "open with" ... and selecting the
> appropriate app, then it'll use whatever you last happened to use
> there as that becomes your preferred opener of that type.
Part of the problem is that I hardly ever use GUI file managers, and if
I do it's usually caja.
> you could beat your head against the massive default applications
> dialog and manually select there mime type by mime type... but just
> using efm is the simplest way...
Yes, but fortunately it was only to mime types and both the bogus
associations were made by one application. I have added the relevant
commands to my setup script for installing new systems now, so I
shouldn't have any more trouble.
Thanks for your help.
///Peter
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