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clay-house

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Registered: 2017-08-09

Posts: 2

How to change nautilus "open with" setting

Hi, I've been using Arch for two months so far, and actually like it more than my original macbook. I have a minor thing that I want to change, so for now when i right click any file, my default nautilus setting has "open with other application" where you have to click it to have a new window of applications. https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jph4X.png
But I want to change it to "open with" with arrow like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLhpQ.png. I couldn't find a post related to this, maybe it is too minor of an issue. Any help about this would be much appreciated. Thanks!

sevendogs

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From: Texas

Registered: 2016-01-24

Posts: 201

Re: How to change nautilus "open with" setting

Hey there and welcome to Arch. Haven't used Gnome in a few weeks so not sure if this is possible. What desktop environment is the second screenshot from? If I recall, Gnome allows you to set the default application to open a specific file type, but I don't think it gives you a list similar to your second screenshot. As a matter of note, your first screenshot shows the opening of a folder/directory and the second one shows the opening of a file. The context menu would probably look different in either case.

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clay-house

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Registered: 2017-08-09

Posts: 2

Re: How to change nautilus "open with" setting

Hi, those screenshots are actually not what I use, I coouldn't take a screenshot of my laptop while right-clicked on a file. I use Cinnamon 3.4.4. While I have a function to set the default application, I wnat it with an arrow so I can switch between multiple applications faster.