File opening application preferences - where/how to set them?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:56:03PM +0000, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:36:50 +0000
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > As per the subject, where and how do I set the default file opening
> > application?  In particular I want to open PDF files with evince
> > rather than acroread by default.
> 
> Open thunar, right-click a PDF file, chosoe "open with" and then "open
> with other application", select evince (it's probably called "Document
> Viewer") and make sure to have the "Use as default..." check box ticked
> before you click "Open". 
> 
> In 4.10 there will be an editor for the MIME/app associations which
> Nick just pushed to xfce4-settings yesterday.
> 
OK, thanks, for some reason I didn't see the "Open With:" in Properties,
I had looked in there.

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Chris Green