Re: [gcmd-usr] set default viewer to eog and default text ed to gedit

[Michael]

Bonnie,

This works for me in Debian:

/home/bonnie/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.lst 

(same syntax as mimeinfo.cache)

(in fact, the files could be identical, just make a symlink to mimeinfo.cache 
and add your content)

As a hint, the package installation files are in /usr/share/applications.

This mime system is an anachronistic thing, today, should be replaced on most 
desktops already, but older gtk apps seem to still use it and it's sitll 
maintained by many (?) installers.




> I have Xubuntu 12.04 64 bit installed.
> 
> This has been frustrating me for over a year
> 
> Right now Gnome Commander insists my default viewer is Ristretto and my 
> default text editor is leafpad.
> 
> both gedit and eog (as "image viewer" show up in the "open with" list 
> when I right click on a file using gnome-commander.
> 
> I have tried changing settings in  using the gnome-commander 
> Settings>Options menu. in the Viewer: box I have eog %s and in the   
> Editor: box I have gedit %s and i REMOVED Ristretto completely from the 
> system. So now if I double click on an image file nothing happens until I 
> right click and choose Image Viewer  from the "Open With" part of the 
> drop down menu. To further annoy me Image Viewer is down at the bottom 
> of the choices.
> 
> I was experimenting with various new text editors and downloaded Leafpad, 
> which I would liek to keep on the system but not have it be the default 
> text editor that gnome-commander brings up. However as soon as I installed 
> leafpad from apt-get it appeared as the default text editor for 
> gnome-commander. I can still open it from the "Open With" drop down 
> menu.
> 
> HELP will be appreciated
> 
> Ristretto is a very limited program and I do not find it useful and I 
> really dislike the menu layout on it.
> 
> 
> 
> I have completely removed Ristretto from teh system and rebooted but that 
> did not help
> 
> 
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