How do you change the default opening application?

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Fri Aug 7 07:47:41 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton wrote:

> Tony Baldwin wrote:
>
>> marc wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> Do YOU know what kind of file it is?
>> Without that little tidbit, we can't tell you what application to use to
>> open it.
>> What is the file extension?
>
> .chm - he did tell us that.
>
> I know how to do this in KDE, but not Gnome.

Where do you do it in KDE now? I probably would have used KControl in
the past, but that superb piece of software has been deleted in the
KDE4 fiasco, so I'm not sure how to do it now.

-- 
Best,
Marc

"Change requires small steps."







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