Re: Setting preferred applications

[N B Day <nbday fastmail fm>]

On Sat, 2019-11-30 at 18:01 +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 30.11.2019, 06:31 -0800 schrieb N B Day via gnome-
> list:
> > On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 21:41 +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I know how to set some preferred applications in Einstellungen ->
> > > Informationen -> Vorgabeanwendugen (~ system settings ->
> > > information
> > > ->
> > > default applications). But how to set the preferred PDF viewer
> > > and  
> > > terminal emulator?
> >
> > Look at /org/gnome/software/popular-overrides with dconf-editor.
> >
> > This says "List of popular applications"
> > and "A list of applications to use, overriding the system defined
> > ones."
>
> There is an entry field called "Eigener Wert" ("own value"). But what
> syntax does it have, and exactly what should be entered here? Those
> two
> emtpy brackets look like an empty list value in some programming
> language.
>
> > Sorry, I have no idea how this would be expressed auf Deutsch.
>
> Keine Ursache ("no reason") (to apologize). :-)

I've never used this; I saw it a while ago but didn't need it. (I'm
happy with the default choices not configurable with GNOME settings.)

I'll play around with it later.  First thing to try: a comma or
semicolon separated list of applications [xterm,tickr]

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