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To change the default application associated with a filetype you must use the xdg-mime command and point to the desired desktop file (if it doesn't exist, you must create one). | To change the default application associated with a filetype you must use the [https://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-mime xdg-mime] command and point to the desired desktop file (if it doesn't exist, you must create one). | ||
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Revision as of 21:58, 7 December 2018
To change the default application associated with a filetype you must use the xdg-mime command and point to the desired desktop file (if it doesn't exist, you must create one).
Example
In the following example we want to make mupdf the default command to open pdf files. First you need to create a desktop file, because mupdf doesn't provide one.
Contents of ~/.local/share/applications/mupdf.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/mupdf-gl
Name=mupdf
Then you must use xdg to associate the desktop file with the pdf extension.
$ xdg-mime default mupdf.desktop application/pdf
That's all.