Re: Change application for MIME types in gnome 2.8

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 17:10 +0100, Henrik Ormåsen wrote:
> I have at terminalserver, debian testing, and should like to change
> the mime registration, so that nautilus, thunderbird, etc. starts
> openoffice. word documents, etc. in openoffice 1.1.2. 
> 
> The problem is that after I installed openoffice2 Beta, this has
> become the default for those files.
> 
> How do I change this for all users?
> 
> I have searched for documentation, but not found anything. The 2.6
> admin guide is outdated for this case.

You can edit the file /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
each line is of the form
mimetype=app1.desktop,app2.desktop

it there is no such line for the mimetype in the global or per-user
defaults.list file, one of the desktop files that declares it supports
the mimetype will be randomly used.

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