OK, a happy discovery. LxSession Default Apps does not do the same
thing as R-Click: Open With: <app> + checking "Always use ..."
If I do the latter with an .odt file, then LxSession Default Apps still
has Documents: AbiWord, but odt docs open with LibreOffice. And abw docs
open with AbiWord.
I see now also that the properties of an odt file show File Type:
OpenDocument Text. The format has its own mime type which can be used
(but is not used by default) as the basis for the kind of granular
control I wanted.
So lxsession-default-apps and pcmanfm are apparently doing something
different in the back end with mime types. I read somewhere that there
are perhaps 4 different mime type configuration files which are
respected in some hierarchy.
On 1/15/2015 10:17 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote:
You can set this at*lxsession-default-apps*
*Menu > Preferences > LxSession Default Apps
*
OR
*Right click* on the file you want to set. Let say, a Document.odt. On
the menu, choose *Properties*. At the Properties windows, select the
software you want to open as default on the "*Open With*" combobox
(drop down menu)... Then hit *OK*.
Double click the file to see if works...
2015-01-14 17:57 GMT-02:00 John Hupp <lubu...@prpcompany.com
<mailto:lubu...@prpcompany.com>>:
I don't understand mime types very well, but it seems like the net
effect as implemented is that they don't result in very granular
control.
To be specific, I find that if I use LibreOffice Writer to create
an .odt file, a double-click on the file in pcmanfm results in
AbiWord opening the file.
I would like LibreOffice to open odt files, AbiWord to open abw
files, and leafpad to open plain text files. But
lxsession-default-apps merely sets a "Document" launcher.
Can set up finer control to open some files according to their
extension?
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