How do I reset "open with"?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 10/02/2015 03:13 AM, Sébastien wrote:
> le 2015-10-02, ToddAndMargo écrivit:
>> That is a list of all my .desktop's.
>
> Hi Todd
>
> Each of these .desktop files in this location match with the entries you
> see in the "Open with" and "Open with other application" sub-menus, and
> a mimetype list decides which desktop file to to show depending on the
> file type you click on.
>
>> What I am after is when I am in a file manager, right click
>> on a file name, select "open with", how do I get rid of
>> all the stale junk?
>
> I do not know off-hand any way to remove obsolete entries in bulk.
> Maybe the RPM equivalent of purging packages would work, assuming it
> applies on non-installed programs. Or to remove the ones you
> restored and only copy the ones you want. Another way, probably more
> troublesome, might be to install the matching packages and uninstall
> them afterwards. Or to write a script that compares the entries with
> installed packages... or even emptying the directory (move the files
> away), just for testing purposes.
>
> If you're ready to do it "manually" though, it's pretty simple.
>
> I had three copies of the "Wine Internet Explorer" entry shown whenever
> I selected a JPEG file. Deleting the appropriate .desktop files in the
> directory removed the entries in the "Open with" sub-menu.
>
> Hope this helps, or at least clarifies my original reply.
>

Hi Petter and Sébastien,

One of the worst offenders is "rdf".  It has 16 things assigned to it.
It should only have one.  A few are stale; most are just wrong.

/home/tony/.local/share/applications/find . -exec grep -l rdf {} \; 2>&1 
| grep -v "Is a dir"

Showed no .desktop had an "rdf" entry.


Looking a ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, I find
no entry for rdf.

So poop!

-T



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