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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Mimetype association problems in Gnome

My current install of Arch Linux has displayed a really weird problem almost from the beginning... You see, when certain applications are installed, they associate with certain mimetypes and open those files by default - for example, GIMP associates itself with various image files. Well, Gnome applications should do the same - for example, Totem normally associates itself with multimedia files - but this time they didn't. In fact, GIMP was the only application that actually associated itself with certain files; all other applications required me to specify the association manually. When opening files via Nautilus, I kept getting "cannot open file blah blah blah" messages, which had to be worked around by using "Open with" and selecting the right application. Open an AVI in Totem? "Cannot open file yada yada yada," very annoying.

At this point I've got most things associated with the right applications, but if I were to, say, try to play an OGG file, I'd have to specify the application. This would have to be done every time I encountered a new filetype, even if I had a Gnome application installed that could open it perfectly.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what's going on... I've got both gnome-mime-data and shared-mime-info installed, since Gnome requires them. Am I supposed to have the gmime package installed too? Or is there something else going on?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Mimetype association problems in Gnome

Nope, installing gmime doesn't help... Filetypes that should be autoassociated with applications aren't. And Galeon still refuses to let me open archives directly, instead requiring that I save them first. WTF...

Xarturkhann

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From: Ankara

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 55

Re: Mimetype association problems in Gnome

hmmm i have same problem with Xfce-svn and Firefox..i cant config my file on firefox download action settings

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Mimetype association problems in Gnome

Alright, it looks like something has broken... The question is, what the hell is it? I'll see if I can get a console message from Galeon when it refuses to let me open something...