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smohr

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Registered: 2012-05-29

Posts: 33

Setting applications

Hey everybody!

Short question:
I recently installed libreoffice. Now, the default application for text files is libreoffice-writer.

I was wondering how to change it back to a text editor.
I only want libreoffice to open doc-files.

In KDE, I can set the default application of text/plain back to my text editor. But there are plenty of different text mime types.

Is there a way to change them all? Or remove libreoffice from the application list of text files?

Thank you a lot.
Samuel

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Setting applications

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … plications

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smohr

Member

Registered: 2012-05-29

Posts: 33

Re: Setting applications

Ok, thank you.

Does this mean that I have to write a file ~/.config/mimeapps.list with

[Default Applications]
text/cache-manifest=org.gnome.gedit.desktop
text/css=org.gnome.gedit.desktop
text/plain=org.gnome.gedit.desktop
text/vcard=org.gnome.gedit.desktop

with hundreds of lines?

Or is there a easier way to get libreoffice-writer.desktop out of the unformatted text file mime types?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,543

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Re: Setting applications

Why hundreds of lines?  If you want them all to be opened with gedit, that'd be one line:

text/*=org.gnome.gedit.desktop

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