file associations

[Harold Aling]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 08:21:07 -0400, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>
wrote:
> On Tue May 13 2008, Harold Aling wrote:
>> > How do you manage file associations ?
>>
>> Right click->open with...
> 
> right, I do that, but it is a bother and a pain to remember to add that
> extra
> step each and every time.

OK, how about: right click->open with other application->select one from
the list->make sure 'Use as default for this kind of file' is checked?

> Why does an AVI open with ARK? somewhere
> something is telling it to do that.

This is set in the mime handlers by either ARK or your favorite distro.
Xfce has nothing to do with this.

> Paul Cartwright

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