Thanks Duncan for pointing me to the problematic file. On November 27. 2013 21:49:27 Duncan wrote: > Klaus Slott posted on Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:25:15 +0100 as excerpted: > > For some time now VLC seems to be default selection on my kde profile no > > matter what kind of file I open. [..] > > The GUI method (one by one but all in the same place, at least): > > KDE settings [..] > Take a look at the various video/* and audio/* types, and possibly some > image/* types as well I could live with VLC being default for audio and video. But VLC have hooked in on almost everything like rpm-specfiles, shell scripts, text files. Even all OpenOffice file types (OpenOffice files still is default to OpenOffice because OO seems to have a higher priority).
So removing VLC associations via KDE settings seems to be a huge job. > Direct-edit text-config-files method: > > First, query your package installation database ... for the files installed > by the vlc package. > Based on the results I get here, the following files look interesting: > > /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop Yes had looked on this file previously, but nothing in this file seems to explain why VLC is associated with unrelated files. > This is the main *.desktop file with the menu entry and mimetype list for > vlc. Note that near the bottom it has a looonngg MimeType= line. There is a lot af mime types, but to me they all seem legitimate for a media player. > This is the default list. Also note the X-KDE-Protocols line. I am unsure what they do: klaus@roaster:~> grep X-KDE /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop X-KDE-Protocols=ftp,http,https,mms,rtmp,rtsp,sftp,smb But anyway I never messed around with this file and other user accounts on this machine do not have VLC dominate everything. > At the user level, check ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list . > This may or may not exist. If it does, it will likely override the > system stuff. > > *** THIS *** > In the same ~/.local/share/applications/ subdir, look for any vlc*.desktop > files. Again, this will override system defaults. I don't know how to > "whiteout" mimetype entries, but I suspect if you use the GUI to remove > vlc from one association, it'll show up in this file as a whiteout, and > you can use that pattern to whiteout others via direct-edit. > ***/ THIS*** And this directory was where the problem was! Here I found 2 interresting files: mimeapps.list vlc-2.desktop Replacing both with files from another user stopped VLC world domination. Thanks again. -- Regards Klaus ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
