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I'm still very much a novice, so please let me know if this has been asked before.

I'm running Ubuntu 19.04.

.ris files are plaintext files that can be imported into citation managers. I would .ris files to open in my citation manager (mendeleydesktop.desktop) instead of in a text editor.

I followed the directions here. There we no relevant entries in my mime.types file corresponding to .ris.

I added text/ris ris to my /etc/mime.types file, ran sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime, and then edited mendeleydesktop.desktop to have a line reading MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mendeley;application/pdf;text/x-bibtex;text/ris.

When I tried to open a .ris file, it still opened in a text editor.

So I followed the instructions to make a .xml file in /usr/share/mime/applicaitons. Upon running sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime, that .xml file was deleted.

What am I missing? Is it possible to make files with a *.ris extension open in mendeleydesktop.desktop by default?

My .xml file is echoed below, along with it being deleted after updating.

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Try putting the XML in /usr/share/mime/packages instead of applications. Not sure why it works but it did for me.

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