How do you change the default opening application?

[Chris Jones]

marc wrote:
> Changing the default app for an exisiting mime-type is simple, but
> how do you change the default app for "undefined" mime-types?
> 
> When I open a file in a file manager, I want it to open in
> the appropriate application -- and most of the time it does. When the
> file's mime-type does not have an associated app, I want to open the
> file with my application of choice. How do I change this application?
> 
> The problem I have at the moment is that, somehow, the .chm reader
> application that I have installed has become the "fall back"
> application, which is not a good thing.

Try right clicking on a file and poke around in the properties. I 
believe in there somewhere you can change the default application 
associated to the file type.

cheers Chris