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Relative noob here. Need help trying to figure this one out:

I have a program (Guitar pro 6) that I want to associate to all .gpx files so that when i start such a file, it is started with that program. Ubuntu 12.10 doesnt do that by default. It says it doesnt know which program to use and offers to identify that right program from a list. However, this program is not in the list. Not to worry: so I read in this post

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1976921.html

How people solved this in 12.04 (By edditing '/usr/share/applications/Guitar Pro 6.desktop' and adding %u to Exec= line.

However, in my situation (difference being the release level?) it doesn't work.

Any help is appreciated

Cheers, Mat

Update: I finaly got word back from the GuitarPro support team:

"About the file association issue, this seems to be more related to your computer, there is not feature in GP that will allow you to correct this. You might have to set your Linux Window manager to correct this."

Well this is no help, obviously

Again: its an anoyance more then a huge problem but I'd still like to figure this one out. I'm running regular compiz window manager btw.

Does anybody have any thoughts on how to fix this?

Cheers

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Select .gpx file>right-click>properties>Open with tab>search for GP6 executable. – Uri Herrera Dec 20 '12 at 0:05
Thanks for the response Uri! But also in your way, I am only offered a list of applications. I can't browse the file system for an applications that is not in that list. – matv1 Dec 20 '12 at 21:32
Bunp! Still need help on this :) – matv1 Dec 23 '12 at 1:28
I didn't think this should have been that difficult. I did some more research and am now looking at xdg-mime and xdg-open. Does anyone have pointers on that? Does it work in Ubuntu 12.10 and how to use syntax? – matv1 Jan 7 at 16:10
So far so bad: It was'nt even that big an issue. What was initialy a minor iritation is now driving me completely insane. I cannot believe this can't be fixed. This is where I'm at now: I found my issue again (with a different applications, but that's not important right now) here: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2001865 The solution presented from post #4 onward seemed to work for a lot of people because i see a lot of refurals to this thread. – matv1 Jan 8 at 2:36
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