<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix"> Hi John, Thanks for finding this!! I will have to experiment with using mimeapps.list some. For all who are interested here is the spec... <table border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$desktop-mimeapps.list</td> <td>user overrides, desktop-specific (for advanced users)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mimeapps.list</td> <td>user overrides (recommended location for user configuration GUIs)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/$desktop-mimeapps.list</td> <td>sysadmin and ISV overrides, desktop-specific</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/mimeapps.list</td> <td>sysadmin and ISV overrides</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/$desktop-mimeapps.list</td> <td>for completeness, deprecated, desktop-specific</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list</td> <td>for compatibility, deprecated</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/$desktop-mimeapps.list</td> <td>distribution-provided defaults, desktop-specific</td> </tr> <tr> <td>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/mimeapps.list</td> <td>distribution-provided defaults</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Based on that I think you should save the file as (for local users): ~/mimeapps.list ~/lubuntu-mimeapps.list (mayeb lxde??) then run echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS if you want to find the specific global directories to change the ## I am using an array here below to indicate you can *probably* use any directory listed) ${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS[1]}/mimeapps.list or one of these: lubuntu-mimeapps.list lxde-mimeapps.list On 01/20/2015 05:06 PM, John Hupp wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:54BEDF70.8000903@prpcompany.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I was looking at this further, and found out that /usr/share/applications/defaults.list was officially deprecated in 4/14. See, for instance, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2015-January/msg00000.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2015-January/msg00000.html</a> and also the current spec at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html</a> which instead specifies the use of a mimeapps.list at one location or another. Lubuntu 14.04 seems to implement some sort of mixture of the deprecated and current spec. I have not been able to pin it down with precision. The LibreOffice installation wrote a full complement of mime type associations to /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. But PCmanFM does not look at that -- it opens an ODT file with AbiWord. I have yet to figure out what it looks at by default. Anyone know? If I R-click on a file: Open With and check the box to make the current app the default for opening the file, then PCmanFM writes to ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list with the minimal entries required to set the desired mime type association. And then for the current user, ODT files open with LibreOffice. Oddly enough, though PCmanFM writes to a mimeapps.list (named per the new spec), ~/.local/share/applications is not one of the lookup locations in the new spec. I copied ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to /etc/xdg/lubuntu/, which is a lookup location in the new spec. Then I created a new user and found that my global mimeapps.list was ineffective. .... </div> <blockquote cite="mid:54B81763.80401@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Regards</pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Regards</pre> </body> </html>