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

[Yiannis Gatsoulis]

David Holden wrote:
> 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
>   
See the other reply.... It was basically describing:
Right click -> Open with -> Then choose the application that you want to 
and gnome will automatically associate with that...