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?
On my system (Debian Jessie) I found all the normal methods of specifying a default application wouldn't override the one hiding in ~/.config/mimeapps.list.
Thunar insisted on opening a particular file with gedit even after I told it to make the correct application the default. When I removed the setting from ~/.config/mimeapps.list, it started working properly again.
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.listwith a few added associations, however I do not have any.listfiles 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 -
1More strangeness. I've looked through all the
defaults.listandmimeapps.listfiles on the system, and in two of them, JPEG images are actually configured to run witheog.desktopwhich 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 -
I am using Ubuntu 13.10.
The file you need to edit is /etc/gnome/defaults.list.
