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This blog post talks about how to change the default application to handle a file type in Nautilus for individual file types (right-click on the file, "open with", and select the new default application), but is there a way to list all current associations and configure them in one go, similar to the Windows "folder options | file types" tab? There seem to be a bunch of default associations that I want to change (all various image files are being opened in IceWeasel instead of the image viewer), and I don't want to have to change them one-by-one in the file manager. If there's no GUI for doing this, then where does Nautilus store its file associations? Can I edit them with a text editor?

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All of your file associations are stored in $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. Some of them are not in your personal mimeapps.list file. There's a system wide file with all the default associations in /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list and/or in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list.

For more info check out Specifications/mime-actions-spec

Edit:
In Fedora 14 I have these settings files: 

/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
$HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
$HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
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Thanks, that helps a little in that I do indeed have a $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list with a few added associations, however I do not have any .list files in /usr/share/applications/ and yet there are evidently a bunch of other default associations stored somewhere. Do you know where else they could be stored? – Jez Jun 22 '12 at 14:31
More strangeness. I've looked through all the defaults.list and mimeapps.list files on the system, and in two of them, JPEG images are actually configured to run with eog.desktop which should open them in the image viewer and not Iceweasel, and yet Nautilus still opens JPEG images in Iceweasel. How could it be getting this file association? – Jez Jun 22 '12 at 15:04
That is strange. I have this: $ cat ./.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list | grep jpeg image/jpeg=gthumb.desktop;gnome-eog.desktop; – slybloty Jun 22 '12 at 15:47

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