Questions tagged [mime-type]
MIME type is a standard way that computers use to refer to the file-type/format
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How to set default application based on file extension, not mime type?
I have files with extensions .txt, .sln and .csproj, they all have mime type text/plain. But they should be opened by different programs. .txt - by Vim, .sln and .csproj - by Rider. How can I achieve ...
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Assign an icon to a custom mimetype
I tried to create a custom mimetype (text/graphml+xml) by creating the file ~/.local/share/mime/packages/graphml+xml-mime.xml with this content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-...
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How to set the Preferred applications on Ubuntu MATE 20.04, for a given user?
On Ubuntu MATE 18.04, I could add and set preferred applications, for a given user, this way:
# Create an application entry
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/browser.desktop << EOF
[Desktop ...
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No files will open from Nautilus
Whenever I double-click a file in Nautilus it does not open. See below screenshots for .pdf and .png files.
It does show the icon for document viewer for the .pdf file, but it still displays the ...
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How “file --mime-type path” works for a file wich has no extension
To find a files mime type which we don't know we will use file command with --mime-type argument. We know it is showing results based on given file paths extension(such like text/x-python for *.py). ...
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Modifying mime types through the nautilus interface
Looking at the fora, I see that the way to modify/introduce new mime types requires to edit files by hand. I seem to remember that there was an interface for this before.
I wanted to add a mime type ...
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Firefox opens clean window from application
When I open a link from another application, like Slack or an IDE,
Firefox opens a new window without any of my extensions installed or enabled. It also does this when there is a Firefox window ...
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Forcing gedit to recognize .kv files
On Ubuntu, the language that defines syntax highlighting for kivy layout files is installed by default (or added automatically when installing kivy). The problem is, in gedit, I have to manually ...
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How to change the type “text/plain” in non .txt files
I have Ubuntu 18.04
I have a program called "transcribe!" (software to reproduce and modify audio) that can open .xsc files.
When I make the association of the file type .xsc to Transcribe (...
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How to open a file with a determined application even when the type is opened by default by another application?
Context
Okular is a PDF reader with support to annotations, bookmarks, etc. When I want to save the PDF with the annotations and bookmarks embedded, Okular saves a application/zip file.
When I open ...
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Escaping spaces in .desktop file Exec line with “bash -c”
I have a desktop file for a GTK application that I have created which has the following structure:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=My GTK Application
Comment=Desktop File
Exec=bash -c 'sudo taskset -...
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VS Code open directory instead of system file manager in Ubuntu 19.10
After upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 I notice a stranger behaviour in code: if I double click a directory or a unit or right click a directory and try open the directory was open by code unless nemo or ...
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How to change all file associations (MIME-types) of one particular application in KDE?
I have installed a closed source office suite called Freeoffice. Generally, I use Libreoffice for all my work and need Freeoffice only as a backup to check if there are any inconsistencies in ...
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Associate custom icon to file extension
Problem: show custom icon for files with *.xyz extension (to be used in deb package)
Adopted solution
0) Install a fresh ubuntu 19.04 on virtualbox
1) Create a new icon (xyz.svg and xyz.png 48x48)
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Why does “MimeType=text/x-shellscript;” not work in this .desktop file?
OS: Kubuntu 18.04
The default file manager, dolphin, has the facility to use Service Menus, somewhat like Custom Actions in thunar and pcmanfm or Nautilus Actions.
Quoting from here:
In KDE-...
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How to open *.htm differently than *.html?
I'm trying to get *.htm files to open in a different application than for *.html (MIME Type text/html), as generally described in GNOME Help > Add a custom MIME type for all users. I've created /usr/...
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How do I fix some broken thumbnail preview settings in Nautilus?
Okay, I wanted previews for psd files in Nautilus. So I tried the scripts found on this page: How to make Nautilus display .psd thumnails?
This did not work, so then I found this maintained PPA, and ...
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Update-mime-database deletes .xml mime file
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 ...
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How to configure what starts when inserting a medium in Lubuntu / LXQt?
How can I configure what is executed under LXQt for a newly inserted medium? I would like the pcmanfm-qt file manager of LXQt to start in every case.
Because the current behavior is useless and ...
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How can I associate a custom file type with a custom executable?
I have a custom file type, made a custom MIME type for it, associated an icon with it. Now I want to open it with my custom executable. If I click OpenI get a dialogue Could not display ... There is ...
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Promote evince in /etc/mailcap.order
GIMP very unexpectedly took over opening PDF files a while ago when issuing the see command. It is listed in /etc/mailcap before the more appropriate evince. Of course I can edit this file by hand, ...
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How can I run exe files in Dolphin on Kubuntu
I have wine installed. But how can I set it default for running exe files?
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Files associations (MIME) in Ubuntu 18.04
I'm trying to figure out how files associations work in Ubuntu 18.04.
I looked around the web (quite a lot actually) and found these files:
[A] /etc/gnome/defaults.list
[B] /usr/share/applications/...
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How to execute a file based on the mime type in Nautlius?
I can execute the file via terminal. But how can I tell Nautilus to do the same on double click?
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When does /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache get updated and can I protect it?
I find it really irritating that some applications (e.g. pdfshuffler and calibre) end up a higher priority in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache than my desired application for PDFs (okular).
I ...
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Where is a detailed GUI for file associations?
I am using Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04.
I just fixed an irritating feature whereby Firefox would open PDFs with PDFShuffler instead of Okular (which Dolphin launches). I fixed it by editing /usr/share/...
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Nautilus and Nemo don't recognize python 3 files
Nautilus and Nemo use two different icons for python files:
But I want them to show the python icon for all python files.
mimetype gives the same result for both files:
$ mimetype *.py
buy_test.py: ...
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Is it Safe to Change the Name of a .desktop File in /usr/share/applications?
I use Lubuntu (18.04) and several Gnome apps. By default Gnome apps are given generic association names like 'Terminal' for gnome-terminal and 'text editor' for gedit, which is confusing considering ...
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Set priorities for file-open applications
Most of the time I open .sla scribus files ("application/vnd.scribus" mimetype) with Scribus application, but sometimes I have to edit them with Geany (.SLA files are a kind of flat XML files). I do ...
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Thunar: set different default applications for *.rkt files and *.txt files
The problem: whenever I set a default program for opening *.rkt files, it also becomes the default program for opening *.txt files. Whenever I set a default program for opening *.txt files, it also ...
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ubuntu think my C/C++ source file is plain file
Today I suddenly find that when I create a C or C++ source code file like using vi or touch
touch test.c
The Ubuntu don't think it is source code file and recognize it as plain text. And when i use ...
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PCmanFM - How can I remove an entry from the context menu?
I am using Lubuntu 18.04.
When clicking right on a file the context menu of the file manager opens up. The file manager is PCmanFM, a great tool. I would like to remove programs from the list of ...
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Mime type for iso files in Kubuntu 18.04
Posted in order to provide the answer.
I have some desktop files for context menu actions (or service menus for Dolphin) to be applied to iso images (like mount/unmount). For example, the Dolphin ...
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Steam using wrong file association for inode/directory (kid3)
Kubuntu 16.04, latest Steam. kid3 is not a preferred application in both /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list and ~/.config/mimeapps.list and ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list is a symlink to ...
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Deleted Gstreamer codec and can't play mp3 or mp4 files
I had accidentally deleted one of the G-streamer codec and now i can't play any mp3 or mp4 file. Whenever, I try to open one of these files it gives a message of "Additional MIME type require". Please ...
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File associate by MIME subtype / extension
I'm writing files in markdown format using the markdown editor Remarkable and I name these files with the extension *.md. I'd like to associate the these files with Remarkable but if I do so the ...
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How to force Nautilus to check file extension before file content for default application
Nautilus first checks the file content before the file extension to decide which mime type to use.
I have a bunch of raw file with different first few bytes: Nautilus doesn't follow the type ...
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Nemo sort php files and javascript as type program
Nemo and nautilus sort php files and javascript files as type program
How can i modify this feature, so i can sort javascript as javascript and php as php?
Thank YOu in advance
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17.10 seahorse-nautilus mime association for “decrypt file”, getting really frustrated at the ubuntu way
I'm a proficient linux user, just recently I've been learning how to deploy server with ansible+vagrant so I just spent an entire week on centOS and various other flavour of linux getting a complex ...
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Krusader sees doc, docx, xls, xlsx as zip archive
After I updated Kubuntu from version Zesty (17.04) to Artful (17.10) krusader suddenly sees office formats (doc, docx, xls, xlsx) as zip archives, where as dolphin sees them correctly. How do I fix it?...
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How do mimeinfo.cache files relate to mimeapps.list?
The different mimeinfo.cache files are populated by update-desktop-database from the .desktop files you have around.
However, file browsers and such seem to use mimeapps.list files. Manipulating ...
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How to launch only shell scripts from Nautilus
This is related to questions like “How do I run executable scripts in Nautilus?” or “How to execute a script just by double clicking like .EXE files in Windows?”.
I would also like to have shell ...
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How to get the icon of a window class?
I'm writing a script to quickly list my many opened windows. I have grouped them according to their class. I would like to add an icon to the group.
I use wmctrl to get the list of windows:
wmctrl ...
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Open files only opens terminal instead of file browser
I have a problem: For some reason, if I open a file from inside an application (such as in Firefox "Open downloaded file in folder", for example), it only opens gnome-terminal in the home directory, ...
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How to Open (.sps,.csv and .sav) with SPSS as default application?
I installed SPSS24 (a statistics application) on my laptop because i need it for work.
I created a SPSS.desktop file and now i can find ich with the Dash search. So far so good.
But now i want that ...
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List of file types and default Ubuntu applications to open with
I'm writing a humble file manager and am seeking a list of different file types and what default applications Ubuntu uses to open them with.
So far I've only figured out "text" open with gedit, "...
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I deleted MIME directories and update-mime-database doesn't work anymore! Help!
update-mime-database was getting very slow recently, so I decided to remove all associations and start over, thus I ran:
sudo rm -fr /usr/share/mime /usr/share/mime-info /usr/share/mimelnk
I thought ...
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How MIMEs are detected
I've searched around but can't seem to find any information on the topic.
How do you set the MIME type for an existing file?
For example, I'm trying to create a file with type text/html
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gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
When I run:
tar -zxvf john-1.7.0.2.tar.gz
I get this:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
It should start unpacking.
Some ...
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Unable to open local .swf in any browser
When trying to open locally saved .swf (any) in Chromium or Firefox instead of opening it browser opens save prompt.
Flash plugin is installed for both, flash is working when viewed embedded into ....
