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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">You could of course use:<br>
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/usr/share/applications/defaults.list<br>
This hold a bunch of the values you'd normally set using xdg-mime<br>
It usually contains stuff like:<br>
<pre>application/rtf=libreoffice-writer.desktop</pre>
<pre>application/tab-separated-values=libreoffice-calc.desktop</pre>
<pre>application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3=libreoffice-calc.desktop</pre>
<pre>application/vnd.ms-excel=libreoffice-calc.desktop</pre>
<pre>application/vnd.ms-word=libreoffice-writer.desktop</pre>
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Which you can change to whatever you like.<br>
This should effect using things like:<br>
<tt>xdg-open </tt><tt>mydoc.rtf</tt><br>
from the terminal, and probably from any application that looks at
xdg mime types.<br>
The first line in my above excerpt defines that
libreoffice-writer.desktop will handle this.<br>
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On 01/15/2015 10:38 AM, John Hupp wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">OK, a happy discovery. LxSession
Default Apps does not do the same thing as R-Click: Open With:
<app> + checking "Always use ..."<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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On 1/15/2015 10:17 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">You can set this at<b> lxsession-default-apps</b>
<div><b>Menu > Preferences > LxSession Default Apps<br>
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<div><b>Right click</b> on the file you want to set. Let
say, a Document.odt. On the menu, choose <b>Properties</b>.
At the Properties windows, select the software you want to
open as default on the "<b>Open With</b>" combobox (drop
down menu)... Then hit <b>OK</b>.<br>
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Double click the file to see if works...</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-14 17:57 GMT-02:00 John Hupp
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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understand mime types very well, but it seems like the net
effect as implemented is that they don't result in very
granular control.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Can set up finer control to open some files according to
their extension?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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