[Wylug-help] setting the default application for a particular file mime type in gnome.

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:13, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
> David Holden wrote:
> >  Anyone know how to associated a particular application with a file mime
> > type for nautilus/gnome.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> >  file.xxx
> >
> >
> > It seems you can do "open with" then choose a custom application but it
> > does not seem to give you the option to make this the default action.
>
> Right click->properties->open with and you can select the default to
> open... That is Gnome 2.14.3 for me.


 Hi, Thanks for the replies, however the problem is that I want to do this for 
a file extension that nautilus does not know. e.g.

file.xxx

gnome seems to assume that if it does not know the file extension its a text 
file. So if I change the default for this particular .xxx type it also 
changes the default for texts file generally, which I don't want to do.

What I would like is for gnome to associate an application with this 
particular file extension.

  Dave.


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