Xfce 4.8 + Thunar 1.2.3: opening documents

[killermoehre]

Am 07.06.2012 19:45, schrieb Ray Andrews:
> On 07/06/12 10:21 AM, hha4491 wrote:
>> Hi Silvio,
>>> copy the file /usr/share/applications/lyx.desktop (or similar) to
>>> ~/.local/share/applications and alter it for your needs. The desktop
>>> file could be in /usr/local/share/applications, too.
>> after doing it Application-Menu->Office looks fine now with two
>> different entries for lyx and lyx-devel, same in Thunar, but there are
>> two extra starters which I can't delete.
> 
> 
> Just exploring the above, I find that my
> ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list shows many lines that refer to
> files that don't exist in /usr/share/applications.  Is this a problem? eg:
> 
> audio/mpeg=totem.desktop
> 
> ... but there is no totem.desktop in /usr/share/applications.

This is not a problem. Yeah, you can delete them, but it shouldn't
bother you.

> Also, in /usr/share/applications, there are a zillion files like:
> 
> libreoffice-writer.desktop.~1~
> 
> ... what are these? They look killable to me.

Ask your package manager who the owner of this files is.

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