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russK
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 Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:32 am Post subject: gnome forgot file type associations? [solved] |
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I'm running gnome-3.22.
When I double-click an item in nautilus it does not know how to open it, it tries to open everything in the editor. I end up with binary nonsense in the text editor whenever I double-click on an image file or other media files.
Also .desktop files don't open right, they just go into the editor too.
Anyone know how to fix?
Thanks
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sebB
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:34 am Post subject: |
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What happen if you right click on the item?
Can you choose the default program?
Gnome select the last program used by default |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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russK,
As I still have GNOME 3 in a VirtualBox VM after investigating a different GNOME problem for another user, I checked the locations of the file-association files:
| Code: | $ locate mimeapps.list
/etc/skel/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications/mimeapps.list
$ locate defaults.list
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The files ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and /etc/skel/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list have very few entries, and the long list of default applications are defined in the file /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list, so do you still have that main file or has it somehow been deleted?
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russK
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies
When I right-click on an icon, even image files (they do not show as thumbnails), I get "Open With Text Editor" and "Open With Other Application" as the first 2 entries. The rest of the menu is just copy, paste, etc.
If I choose "Other Application" and choose an image viewer, it does not remember any association next time.
Fitzcarraldo, I have this: | Code: | $ ls -ltr $(locate mimeapps.list defaults.list)
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14293 Aug 8 2015 /usr/portage/mate-base/mate-session-manager/files/defaults.list
-rw-r----- 1 russ russ 237 Feb 29 2016 /home/russ/russ-first-nvme/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18178 Dec 4 2016 /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session/files/defaults.list-r3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 906 Apr 21 16:37 /usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications/mimeapps.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Jul 23 01:07 /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 russ russ 396 Jul 30 22:35 /home/russ/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18178 Aug 6 01:24 /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list
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I also tried this: | Code: | # equery b mimeapps.list
* Searching for mimeapps.list ...
gnome-base/gdm-3.22.3-r1 (/usr/share/gdm/greeter/applications/mimeapps.list)
# emerge -1 gnome-base/gdm |
To no avail. I'm tempted to do a 'emerge -e @world' but it seems a waste and it may not help. |
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Fitzcarraldo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Is the problem limited to GNOME, or does it happen on the command line too?
| Code: | $ xdg-mime query filetype hammock_stand.png
image/png
$ xdg-mime query filetype ntp-client.txt
text/plain
$ xdg-mime query filetype speech.sh
application/x-shellscript |
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russK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Ah, now we're onto something: | Code: | $ xdg-mime query filetype picture.png
text/plain
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I presume my magic number database was somehow corrupted.
I did this: | Code: | | # emerge -1 shared-mime-info |
Like magic it all started working again.
Thanks for the help!! |
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Glad to return the favour! 
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