Questions tagged [file-associations]
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How to set a shell script as KDE file association
Disclaimer: Cross-posted from SU (which I know is usually discouraged) How to set a shell script as KDE file association. Since with only 14 views and no response whatsoever within 3 days I do not ...
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How do I associate an application with all mime types it supports?
Let's say I have xarchiver installed by default, and associated by default with most archive types.
I've installed engrampa, and now want to assciate it with the various archive types instead. I don't ...
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text/plain mimetype being set to "Python File (no console)"
After installing Wine and Python 2.7 in Wine, and then removing Wine, the plain text file format cannot be changed away from Python File (no console).
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How can I associate a specific program to run against a specific file?
By default (on a double-click action), my GUI file manager (nemo) runs a text editor, for all files of mimetype=text/plain.
I currently have a user text file gnuplot.speedtest (with mimetype text/...
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Setting a Flatpak app as the default web browser
I run Firefox from a Flatpak but I can't find how to have it open links when I click them in various XDG-compliant apps. How can I have xdg-open run Firefox from a Flatpak distribution?
The ...
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Thunderbird: specify handler for opening file and arguments
In Thunderbird, I can set handler for opening files for given extension.
Preferences
-> Attachements
I have specified I want to use /usr/bin/mpv for opening wav files. And I see that my ...
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KDE Dolphin: All file associations lost and "open with" provides no options
The other day, KDE/Dolphin seem to have lost all file associations, and the "open with" dialog box no longer presents a list of my applications. If I type an application shortcut name like "kate" into ...
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Why does the help for some applications open in Seamonkey composer?
I am running Linux in the form of openSuse Leap 15.0 with KDE Plasma 5.12.6 and have applied patches regularly. If I run some applications, for example Gimp (2.8.22), and ask for help, it starts ...
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Can't change the default app for opening AVI files
I'm using Cinnamon on Devuan ASCII (which is essentially Debian Stretch without systemd).
I'm trying to change the default player for AVI files from Dragon player to Gnome-MPV.
But - while this seems ...
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How to associate file extensions with my own Python script in Linux?
I wrote Python script to open pickled figure files, called it view_fig_pickle.py and put it into ~/bin directory.
Now how to associate it with file with endings '.fig.pickle'?
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