How do you change the default opening application?

[marc]

NoOp wrote:

> On 08/06/2009 01:04 AM, marc wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/05/2009 09:59 AM, marc wrote:
>>>> Chris Jones wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Right click and select Properties|Open With|Add
>>> You can then add the application if it's not already there. Select 'Use
>>> Custom Command to put in the path of the app if it's not listed in your
>>> applications.
>> 
>> Yes, tes, I know, but this isn't what I'm asking.
>> 
>
> Well you've got me there... Just what _are_ you asking then?

To change the default app when a filetype/mimetype doesn't exist. When
the system has no idea what the file is.

-- 
Best,
Marc

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