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Renan Birck

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[SOLVED] Thunar sees both '.doc' and '.txt' as plain text files...

Hello,

I'm using Thunar as my file manager. However, it sees both '.doc' and '.txt' files as "plain text files".

This means that I can't make the .doc files open with OpenOffice and the .txt files open with a plaintext editor, because whenever I change the program association of one, the other changes.

How to fix that? (looks like a MIME-type issue).

Thanks.

Last edited by Renan Birck (2009-08-14 15:57:05)

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matthewbauer

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar sees both '.doc' and '.txt' as plain text files...

Does anyone know where the config file is stored for file associations? I don't know if that is system-wide or Thunar specific, but that will probably help you.

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loafer

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar sees both '.doc' and '.txt' as plain text files...

Does this help:

http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/faq

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matthewbauer

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar sees both '.doc' and '.txt' as plain text files...

Yes, but $XDG_CACHE_HOME/Thunar/metafile.tdb is a database. I guess you can edit it with tdbtool. But it's not working well for me.

I sure wish Thunar would just store it in a plain old text file.

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DaVince

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar sees both '.doc' and '.txt' as plain text files...

Open /usr/share/mime/globs and /usr/share/mime/globs2, find the lines that assign *.doc to the plaintext mime type, and remove them. Restart Thunar, problem solved.

Renan Birck

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Re: [SOLVED] Thunar sees both '.doc' and '.txt' as plain text files...

Open /usr/share/mime/globs and /usr/share/mime/globs2, find the lines that assign *.doc to the plaintext mime type, and remove them. Restart Thunar, problem solved.

Finally it works. Thanks!

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