On 19/08/13 11:24, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
How xdg-mime would be used to change this is not obvious to me after reading
the man page.
It is actually not trivial! I do not think the mimetype argument to
xdg-mime takes a glob. This makes it more difficult since now you have
to set the default for each file type. Here is a simple example:
To find out the mimetype of a file:
$ xdg-mime query filetype Wait\ until\ dark\ -\ Audrey\ Hepburn.avi
video/x-msvideo
Now you can set the default like this:
$ xdg-mime default vlc.desktop video/x-msvideo
As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be
simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can.
If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
would be very interested to know.
Hope this helps,
Now I see that XFCE Settings has a "MIME Type Editor" with which it
appears you can set the desired applications, for each video format in
this case. I did not know what it was for until now. So I guess I
learned something from all this.
Thanks,
Bob
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