<div>On 10/10/06, <a href="mailto:stude.list@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stude.list@googlemail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:stude.list@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stude.list@googlemail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/10/06, David Holden <<a href="mailto:dvdhldn@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> dvdhldn@gmail.com </a>> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to set the default application associated with a > file/mime type in ubuntu gnome. Navigate to a directory containing the type of file you want to change, in Nautilus. Right click the file and select properties. There should be a tab at the top of the resulting dialog labeled "Open With", select it. There should not be a list of programs, choose which of those you want, or click 'Add' if the one you want is missing. - Andy</blockquote><div> Hi Andy, thanks for the reply. Sorry I was probably not specific enough, the problem I have is I have a "local" mime type, e.g. file.iwf the iwf type is specific to us. I want to associated this type with an application. However nautlius seems to associate all the file suffixes it does not know with type "text", so if I set the associate </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>