Hi Yokota, yokota <[email protected]> writes:
> System default application choice may vary on your applications > installation order, or some other reasons. > For example, .docx uses LibreOffice even I installs Calibre on my machine. > > You can choose your favorite applications as default application from > GNOME file manager application: "Files" > or other file managers. > > The help file of this application describes how to change default > application choice (See blow). > Don't forget to set "Always use for this file type" switch to keep your > choice. > You're writing about the XDG case, which can be tested in a desktop-agnostic way with "xdg-open". Alexandre is writing about mailcap-defined MIME types. These can be tested with "run-mailcap". There's a nice article on this topic here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/472245/how-to-make-xdg-open-follow-mailcap-settings-in-debian Alexandre Lymberopoulos <[email protected]> writes: > Reinstalling libreoffice again in aptitude didn't fixed anything. The > workaournd I found here is to edit the mailcap (/etc/mailcap) file, > commenting the lines linking that type of file to ebook-edit and > ebook-viewer programs. Have you tried /etc/mailcap.order? It might let you work around this bug while you wait for it to be resolved, and IIRC it means your customisation[s] won't be cloberred by a future update. I vaguely remember that mimeview or mimeopen might be able to define per-user mappings, but I'm not sure, because it's been so many years. If I remember correctly mailcap.order is for admin use only, and not for Debian packages, but it might be worth asking someone if this would be alternative to patching upstream `resources/mime.types`. > I insist on my suggestion to keep associtaion of files to its more > obvious options programs and let specific users change it to their > needs. In this concrete situation calibre, or any other software, should > not claim the preference for opening .docx files over libreoffice. To be fair, would you please install "antiword" and then try to open a .doc (not a docx) from mutt? I'm not sure if antiword supports docx, but the point is to use a well-established Debian package with well-established mailcap behaviour. Alternatively, install upstream `resources/mime.types` to /usr/share/doc/calibre/examples, and let users opt-in. The XDG mechanism should continue to work correctly in this case, it may break the workflows of users who use minimal window managers. This solution is the least work. Regards, Nicholas
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