[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648534: Bug#648534: exo-utils: no indication of how to change applications opens with eco-open in manpage
- Subject: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648534: Bug#648534: exo-utils: no indication of how to change applications opens with eco-open in manpage
- From: jdg at debian.org (Julian Gilbey)
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 01:39:44 +0000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20120205013944.GA18794@d-and-j.net>
- In-reply-to: <1321263388.19755.10.camel@scapa>
- References: <20111112162611.4053.2677.reportbug@eyak.imag.fr> <1321263388.19755.10.camel@scapa>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:36:28AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On sam., 2011-11-12 at 17:26 +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> > I just switch from gnome to xfce and I'm trying to configure the xfce
> > desktop. Looking at the default launchers, I quickly see their are using
> > exo-open. As it did not open my prefered application, I look into the manpage
> > how to change that. But there is nothing in exo-open(1) about how to select
> > which applications are launched by exo-open, not even a reference to
> > exo-preferred-applications (that I found by a quick research in google)
> > in a "See Also" section...
>
> Good point. Note that ?preferred applications? are present in the
> settings manager an in the settings submenu of the application menu.
It's worse than this.
exo-preferred-applications has almost no options whatsoever. I now
find that PDFs are opened by Inkscape! I have tried setting
.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, but that doesn't help. I've
tried creating /usr/share/applications/defaults.list, to no avail.
So how can I change the preference order - ideally in a way which I
can explain to a non-techie?
Thanks,
Julian
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