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Change the default terminal for all .desktop files?
My htop.desktop launches XTerm, but I want to change the default terminal to xfce4-terminal in all "Terminal=true" .desktop files.
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How to tell mutt not to wait for an attachment program to return?
I use this line for images in my mailcap:
image/*; eog %s &;
but mutt immediately deletes the temp file and eog can’t load it.
When I remove the & mutt waits for eog to be closed until it ...
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What tool to edit the /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml file
I edited my /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml (with a text editor) to modify the file icon of application/x-7z-compressed mime type :
<mime-type type="application/x-7z-compressed">
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Fedora desktop launcher
I have created a desktop launcher for Midnight Commander in Fedora LXDE environment but this does not work. Where did I make a mistake?
$ cat mc.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
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Create new file type association
Let's assume I have a program X that uses files with the extension .xez. How can I make X the default application for all files with the extension .xez?
My first idea was xdg-mime default X.desktop ...
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How to set the Linux Mint desktop environment to use a mime type?
As a extension to this question: How to make difference between .wxm (wxMaxima) and .c files in Linux Mint?
I'm using Linux Mint. I created a mime type. Now I want the desktop environment to use it. ...
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How to make difference between .wxm (wxMaxima) and .c files in Linux Mint?
I installed wxMaxima on my laptop a few days ago.
The issue is that files with the extension .wxm, that are used with wxMaxima, are identified as a C source files. Therefore, when I double click on ...
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xdg-mime not behaving
I am trying to set the default application for magnet links using:
~ $ xdg-mime default deluge.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet
Checking this with grep -i deluge ~/.local/share/applications/*
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How to use Emacs to recognize and automatically open GPG encrypted file in ASCII armored format?
gpg -ca passwords.txt create encrypted ASCII file passwords.txt.asc. Emacs open the file as a normal text file:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)
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wget - How to download recursively and only specific mime-types/extensions (i.e. text only)
How to download a full website, but ignoring all binary files.
wget has this functionality using the -r flag but it downloads everything and some websites are just too much for a low-resources ...
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Items in context menu in Lubuntu
I am using Lubuntu 11.10. When I call the context menu (right click) many programs appear to open some file.
For example, for .tex files, besides TeXstudio and Leafpad, Gnumeric (what a strange ...
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Is there a graphic tool to add new url schemes like XX://?
I would like to add a few url scheme, e.g magnet://, and add a simple mimetype for it.
So that I would be able to handle these links within my browser.
Is there any graphic tool I could utilize ?
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How to fix xdg-mime for text formats
My xdg-mime makes mistakes. It recognizes an .html file containing Java code as a C++ file.
I don't quite know the internal mechanism of xdg (eg. how it determines filetype). And I want to know how ...
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Detect file-type with the help of magic-file and rename file-suffix accordingly
I have a folder (the iPhone Backup) with various files without a suffix.
I want to run a batch process over these files, which detects each file's file-type (with the help of the magic-file database ...
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Where to submit new mimetypes?
I've defined new mimetypes with file suffix, where should I submit my work, so that it will be included in future linux/unix distros ?
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Sending HTML with Mutt (or another terminal mail client)
While I can find some scattered info on the topic, I can't seem to find a straight walkthrough (or even a definite answer)...
Basically I'm too low on the totem pole to start sending plain-text ...
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How to properly and easy configure `xdg-open` without any enviroment?
I'm using OpenBox window manager without any desktop enviroment.
xdg-open behaves strangely. It opens everything with firefox.
$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
default-web-browser ...
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How can I configure OpenBox session for opening files by mime type?
I've started using OpenBox and I really like it.
But my chromium opens everything with firefox.
Is there any fix for that? I'm looking for most lightweight solution, but also with easy and fast ...
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How to add mimetype bindings?
I got an error message when launching "xdg-open" ,
No applications found for mimetype: inode/mount-point
How should I add a binding for "dolphin" ?
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How to setup default browser?
How to change default browser for opening url-s ?
For sanity check, I tried:
xdg-open 'http://unix.stackexchange.com'
And it opens in other browser. I found information about assigning ...
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How to remove Notepad from the applications list?
After installing Wine, Notepad has became a default application to open unknown textual files by double click. I'd like to eliminate this behaviour and remove Notepad from the list of applications ...
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Fixing mime type on Ubuntu
I am using Ubuntu 10.04. Sometime back after an update, all files in Ubuntu started showing a mime type of text/plain. This means that double clicking on any file opened it using gvim which is really ...
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What could cause strange behavior in file(1) command?
What could cause file(1) command to output application/msword application/msword (yes, twice in a row) as the mime type for some of the .doc files? Normally it prints just application/msword.
If run ...
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Desktop Actions and mime types for a DRM file format
I want to handle a DRM file format, which adds an encryption wrapper outside of the protected content. Please see the diagram.
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| DRM wrapper MIME |
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How to get the icon for a MIME type?
How to get the icon for a MIME type?
I don't want to use g_file_info_get_icon() because its input parameter is a file, not a MIME type.
My use case:
I have a wrapper file which embeds a media ...
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How can I get the error code (exit code) of “xdg-mime query filetype” command?
I ran xdg-mime query filetype <file name> to check the MIME type of a file, and it failed. How can I print the error code (exit code) of the xdg-mime command?
I want to know what error ...
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Why does `xdg-mime query filetype …` fail to find a new added file type?
I installed a new file type to share MIME database. But xdg-mime query filetype cannot tell the new type. This problem only happens on my own Linux OS which does not use GNOME or KDE as its desktop. ...
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How is MIME type “text/html” registered to shared-mime-info? Where is its *.xml file?
On Ubuntu 10.10, which XML file under the directory /usr/share/mime/applications is for MIME type text/html?
I checked xml.xml and xhtml+xml.xml, but neither has a glob pattern of *.html.
So where is ...
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Script to list only files of type ASCII text in the current directory?
How to write a shell script which searches the current UNIX directory and returns the names of all files of type ASCII text?
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Is there a glibc API that can find the default handing application for a MIME type on linux?
I want to find the default handling application in my C program. Is there a C API with same functionality as xdg-mime query default mime-type on Linux?
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Can shared-mime-info associate a MIME type to a desktop applications?
I can add a new MIME type in shared MIME-info, but how can I associates this MIME type with an application?
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How can I find the application for a MIME type on linux?
Is there a linux API that can find the default application for a MIME type? Then I can use this application to open a file.
I can not use xdg-open(url) because the file format is a wrapper format and ...
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Gentoo default application for opening files
On my Gentoo box running without a desktop environment, every time I try to open a file the system tries to open it with Firefox. I understand that without a desktop environment "open file" cannot ...
