Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 3/8/25 8:30 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
> On 08.03.2025 14:50 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
> > I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
> >
> > I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
> > But under Browser->Helper Applications it says "always ask"
> > indicating system isn't getting that far.
> >
> > I used to know what to do ;<
> > Help please.
>
> xdg-mime query default application/pdf
>
> Check what is set here.
>
> Change it if needed:
> xdg-mime default xpdf.desktop  application/pdf

As I've never seen xdg-mime before it is not the tool I'm looking for.
For the record it responds:
> richard@debian12:~$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
> l3afpad.desktop
> richard@debian12:~$