LXDE: missing default applications (mimeapps) [SOLVED]

claudio · Last edited by claudio on Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:33 am; edited 1 time in total

After a fresh install from ground up, pcmanfm (within a LXDE environment, lxde-meta) does not handle any file types. A double click to a PDF, GIF or any other file type does not start its application, even it is insalled (in my example PDF: evince, GIF: gpicview).

All described applications provide their mime types in the matching .desktop file in /usr/share/applications, but pcmanfm does not take a look there. It just looks for the app in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and because it's not yet there, the mime type is not recognised.

Do I miss some important things to configure in order to make LXDE/pcmanfm work with the file type's default application?

Thanks for any advice
Claudio

BillWho · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1600 Location: US

Just as an fyi I just did a fresh install about three weeks ago using LXDE and I did not experience the problem you're having.

In addition I have no such file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list :?:

I did not have to anything special to be able to open a pdf file from pcmanfm

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claudio · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:32 am Post subject:

Now, I just found the solution! I was missing the xdg-utils and the update-desktop-database tool. Running the tool creates a mime cache under /usr/share/applications. Sometimes, I would like to shoot Linux Desktops on the moon... :wink:

Shouldn't these packages be pulled in as dependency by lxde-meta?