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Icons for custom mime-type does not show up with Ubuntu-mono-dark theme
I manually installed LuxRender 1.2.1 under /usr/local/bin/ and it works fine and dandy. I then created 5 new mime-types for LuxRender *.lxs, *.lxo, *.lxm, *.lxv and *.flm file formats (scene, objects, ...
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How to make all filetypes open in a certain program?
I want every filetype to open in Leafpad.
I tried to edit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list to associate file types.
But I want all filetypes to open in a certain program, with maybe something ...
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Bind DrRacket to .rkt
I have installed DrRacket for school and I'm having trouble launching DrRacket when clicking a .rkt file.
I have installed Ubuntu Tweak and the only file type I found was Scheme source file,but these ...
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What is the purpose of /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/?
Adding an Icon section in AddingMimeTypes has this:
Now we need to associate an icon with the MIME type. Get an SVG icon
and name it "text/extension .svg", or whatever your modified MIME type
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How to associate all file types within Wine with its corresponding native application?
This is easily done for a single file type, as answered in How to associate a file type within Wine with a native application?, by creating a .reg for the desired filetype. But this is for AVI only. I ...
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'file --mime-type' and 'mimetype' Commands Returning Different Results
Hi I am trying to work out why PHP is returning an 'msword' file type when it should be 'excel' so have tested on my Ubuntu box using both the 'file' and 'mimetype' commands. As you can see from the ...
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How to play a webm video file?
I have tried vlc, Banshee and Totem but none of them recognize the webm format. Even the system does not recognize its mime-type. How do I play it ?
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How can I stop GIMP from opening Truecrypt's User's Guide PDF? [closed]
I have recently installed Truecrypt on Ubuntu 11.10. The first thing I wanted to do was open the User's Guide from the Help menu. However, when I clicked that menu entry, the GIMP image editor started ...
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Video runs locally but not on apache 2 server
I have a simple html page in which i am running video using html5 tags, when i run that page using firefox it runs the page and video properly. But when i run this page by setting the apache server ...
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How to add MIME Type for the Apache webserver?
In ubuntu, i am running simple html page that can run mp4 video, i have configured Apache Server and have run simple test page for hello world, its working fine. In Apache Webserver i have read that ...
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Double-clicking on .md or .mkd or .markdown files doesn't open them in ReText but in the default text editor
I installed ReText 3.1.3* and all suggested dependencies on Lubuntu 12.10 using apt-get.
If I run touch ~/Desktop/abcd.md, and subsequently double-click on abcd.md in PCManFM or on its icon on the ...
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What is the relationship between MIME types and File .extensions?
I may have the wrong idea here, but I thought that:
MIME types are identifying codes, embedded inside a file.
File .extensions are idenifying codes, suffixed to the file's name.
I thought, from ...
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associating files with same MIME but different file extensions to differentt applications
How can I associate files with same MIME but different extensions to different applications.
For example both .maff & .zip files have application/zip MIME ; But I need to open .maff by Firefox and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - Thunderbird 17.0.2 - Set MIME enconding quoted printable
Ubuntu 12.04 - Thunderbird 17.0.2
How can I set the MIME enconding = "quoted printable" for messages containing 8-bit characters?
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Firefox application associations not working
No matter what changes i make to file associations (actions) in the 'Applications' tab in Firefox, they're totally ignored.
For example, i set .wmv and .avi files to open with 'smplayer' but when i ...
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Associate .mm files with Freeplane
I use Freeplane mind-mapping software. It creates .mm files which Nautilus reports as Troff MM input document. I want to be able to open a file with Freeplane by double-clicking it in Nautilus.
I ...
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How do I determine the Mime type of a file?
I recently switched to gnome3 and was surprised to find that there was no way by which we could set the default applications. I am writing a nautilus extension using bash. I want to find the mime ...
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Firefox's “Open folder” opens Gwenview
Upgrading to 12.04 caused some problems to my Firefox.
It seems like that Firefox doesn't know how to handle downloads.
After some researches, I've found this solution :
Kubuntu 12.04 Firefox and ...
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Where is “open with…” in Nautilus?
In Ubuntu 11.04 I usually edit my *.fig files by clicking on the icons. The application (script) which opened the file was texfig. This script was chosen by "open with..." in nautilus. But now there ...
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Web browser downloads only open target folders - cannot open files
After installing xubuntu packages in order to check xfce, I reverted back to gnome2.
During the first login, I noticed that thunar was now selected as the default file manager.
Preferred applications ...
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How do I fix Firefox Broken Firefox Open with?
I continue to have issues with getting Firefox 15 to properly remember what apps to use to open items with. I'd written previously regarding properly associating .deb files, and the suggested solution ...
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How can I remove / change the “Open With” list?
I have one problem. Just look at image:
So I want to remove one of Dev-C++ IDE and Microsoft Visual Studio Version Selector(I've tried to install Microsoft Visual Stdio and it doesn't works,and one ...
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xubuntu 12.04, how to add a new mimetype
My system: xubunt with xfce 4.10 and compiz
What I want is to associate R's data files (.RData) with RKWard to have them automatically opened in RKWard when double clicked.
I'm using nautilus as my ...
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Netbeans 7.01 from 12.04 repository, no javascript support
I've installed Netbeans 7.0.1 from 12.04 repository, I'm having many issues.
The most important is that I cannot have help in writing JavaScript. Each .js file appear as a usual text file and even ...
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Synchronize default applications between Ubuntu installations
I want to find a way to synchronize the default application preferences for Ubuntu between multiple installations. For example, if I choose Geany as the default text editor for .js files, I want it to ...
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Remove Wine's Notepad from “Open With” options
A few facts: I use Wine. Wine ships its own version of Notepad. For some files, this copy of Notepad has somehow become associated. There is no possibility of me ever actually wanting to open anything ...
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How do I change the MIME type for a file?
I have a file that is formatted as a .doc, but Nautilus and LibreOffice insists that it is a .txt. Both precise and Ubuntu 12.10 are that way, but Google Docs can convert it (after playing with it).
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Force Unity to open any file with any program
When you drag a file to the Unity launcher, only the applications that are supposed to open that file will remain active, while all others become deactivated.
Is it possible to configure Unity to ...
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How to edit mime types on precise [closed]
In precise, when I try to change default icon for a specific file type with Assogiate, there is no effects; not even if I try this operation under root rights. Are there some workarounds known for ...
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Cannot change icon for a filetype
I am trying to change the icon for .py file.
I referred:
http://askubuntu.com/a/78645/78407
http://askubuntu.com/a/56725/78407
and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddingMimeTypes
Still no ...
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How does Chromium pick a MIME-type handler?
Chromium doesn't seem to have any obvious MIME-type configuration settings, which strikes me as a little broken. My specific problem is that there are a number of filetypes that Chromium plays ...
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Add right click menus to nautilus without nautilus-actions
I want to know how I can add action when the user right-clicks on specific MIME-types or folders without the use of nautilus-actions.
I would be happy if this was possible using Nautilus Scripts as ...
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How do I change the icon for a particular file type?
I'm trying to change the icon for application/x-hwp files. I've added the icons to the proper places, and checked it with assoGiate (after reading this thread). It shows that my desired icon is ...
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How to change file association for files opened in Dolphin from command line in GNOME?
I would like to change several default applications for files opened in Dolphin. I know I could do it manually with kcmshell4 filetypes, keditfiletype or however else but is there a way how to change ...
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Script to find executable based on extension of a file?
I need to create a script that returns the default app to be used for a given file extension (including the path). I had a look at the file command which can return the mime type and xdg-open which ...
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How are file-extensions/mime-types/icons/default applications asssociated?
Is there a way / application to add a file extension / mime-type to the system. What I want to achieve is:
Have a default program for opening files of this type
Have a special icon for this filetype
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Changing default applications doesn't work in system settings or on file types
Despite several attempts at a solution, I still can't change the default applications in Ubuntu 11.10. If I change them in system settings they revert back as soon as I close the dialogue. Next time I ...
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How to Enable dragging files on custom application on launcher?
In unity, we can drag files on application's button in the launcher to open that file with that application - however, looks like its hard to change default application.
I use Komodo as editor, and ...
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Setting the icon for my mime type [closed]
I've added my mime type to ubuntu by the .deb package.
I made this file for sharedmimeinfo: http://paste.ubuntu.com/920693/
(I know the first row is wrong)
I can't see the icon for my extension how ...
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Can't Drag & Drop text to unity launcher (e.g. url's, highlighted text)
I'm trying to create a unity launcher icon (.dekstop file) on which you can drop any (selected/highlighted) text from a web browser, google chrome in my case.
I know you can use the "MimeType=" key ...
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Can I disable Chromium's in-browser mp3 player?
When I click on a link in Chromium to an mp3, can I make the default behavior be to download it and not to start playing it with some in-browser thing?
I've disabled all of my plugins, so it's not ...
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Why does Kmail make JPG files larger when I forward them?
When I forward emails with JPEG attachments inline, the JPEG files size enlarge. Is this normal? Can I turn it off?
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How to change mimetype image for PSD file (Photoshop)?
Following this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddingMimeTypes, I first typed a command to discover the mimetype for psd extension
~$ grep 'psd' /etc/mime.types
image/x-photoshop psd
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Why does update-mime-database complain about uri/rtspt and other unusual types?
When running update-mime-database - usually automatically launched by apt-get - why do I reliably get complaints like:
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
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Adding mime type
Hello i'm creating an ide called SLY.
Sly creates .slyproj files i want that when user click on it they see the file icon, and sly must open up!
i asked on the IRC i made sly.sharedmimeinfo : ...
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Where are file associations stored?
How Ubuntu or any other Linux systems store file associations?
Is there some /etc/asscociations file? or something?
I know that I can right click on file and change it via "open with". But I'm just ...
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Kubuntu 12.04 Firefox and Rekong don't know how to open downloaded files
I just installed Kubuntu 12.04 beta 1.
Both Rekong and Firefox don't know how to "Open Containing Folder" for downloaded items. They also don't know how open the item itself. (I'll give the specific ...
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How do I set a custom thumbnailer for audio/x-vorbis+org?
Google shows this error referenced on some Thunderbird bug, but it's not clear to me how they resolve it.
Here is my issue:
I have vorbis file:
xdg-mime query filetype "my-file1.ogg"
→ output: ...
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Where is the file used by file(1) and libmagic to determine mime types?
According to man 5 magic:
"The file /usr/share/misc/magic specifies what patterns are to be tested for, what message or MIME type to print if a particular pattern is found, and additional information ...
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How do I set FBReader as the default mobi ebook reader?
Is there a quick simple way of installing FBReader? Also, how do I fix the filetype not being recognized (mime TYPES?)
I want to set FB Reader as the default Open for mobi ebooks, but it's not ...
