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

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:30, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
> 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...


Must be using a different version of gnome, because Right click -> Open 
with -> Then choose the application allows me to choose an application but it 
does not make it the default for this file extension. 

 Dave.


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