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Labello

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Registered: 2010-01-21

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[SOLVED]Gui for changing file associations

hello everyone!

i use openbox as WM, thunar as my filebrowser and chromium as my webbrowser.

i ran into the following issue:
everytime i download something with chrome and click on the entry displayed on the bottom it mostly does not do anything. but i found out that it queries

xdg-open

which then reads

~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

which seems very logical to mee since this is a very centralized approach in opening files. this way thunar and chrome use the same apps. but it seems pretty cumbersome to me to type every file-type into this file.

i found out that thunar is able to add entries into this file by selecting an application manually to always use this application for this kind of file.

but is there any way that i can select file-roller for example for ALL archives and add ALL those entries into defaults.list? or all media-files to be opened with vlc since this is my only media-player anyway. thunar is not the issue here but chrome is :-)

i know that ubuntu-tweak has got something in this direction but this does not work on arch :-(

so is there any gui or something that allows me to populate defaults.list in an easy manner?

thanks in advance!

Last edited by Labello (2010-08-08 14:04:58)

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Labello

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2010-01-21

Posts: 317

Website

Re: [SOLVED]Gui for changing file associations

Sorry for the hassle.

I found a solution and added it to the OpenBox-article in the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … sociations

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