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bbarcher

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From: Poland

Registered: 2014-02-27

Posts: 174

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How to fix broken default applications associations?

Gnome 3.10
Recently associations on my system went haywire for no reason. GIMP became default image viewer and the default program for PDFs etc. I've fixed what I could using Gnome Settings > Details > Default applications but only few associations could be rectified there. For example Firefox > Downloads > Open containing folder still opens the destination using Anjuta IDE.

How can I fix this?
Both locations

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

described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … aults-list are empty on my system and I've never fiddled with them.

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tellmi

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Registered: 2012-12-03

Posts: 13

Re: How to fix broken default applications associations?

I just posted a possible solution in a similar post here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1459772

No idea yet, whether it gets broken with the next update.

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: How to fix broken default applications associations?

use /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list for a list of mime associations, and edit/add new ones to ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

No idea yet, whether it gets broken with the next update.

that list is altered whenever a new program is added with mime associations, or an old one removed

Last edited by HiImTye (2014-09-24 06:00:13)

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 726

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Re: How to fix broken default applications associations?

Is Gnome now following the updated Association between MIME types and applications standard? Released about 6 months ago, the revised standard makes quite a big difference to where files specifying defaults should be located. But I'm sorry, I don't know much about Gnome itself ...