association of applications with media

[Aaron Konstam]

Let me try one more time. Someone must know the answer to this seemingly
critical question. How to arrange it that a particular application is
used to process a particular media?

totem for example will handle DVDs or it will handle CDs, etc, etc and
so forth.
 
As a further example : 
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
explains how totem can be used to play DVDs. Well if you install vlc
that application becomes the default for DVDs. How can that be changed?
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[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:09 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  On Thursday 31 July 2008 21:54:12 Aaron Konstam wrote:
>  > Let me try one more time. Someone must know the answer to this seemingly
>  > critical question. How to arrange it that a particular application is
>  > used to process a particular media?
>  >
>  > totem for example will handle DVDs or it will handle CDs, etc, etc and
>  > so forth.
>  >
>  > As a further example :
>  > http://www.fedorafaq.org/
>  > explains how totem can be used to play DVDs. Well if you install vlc
>  > that application becomes the default for DVDs. How can that be changed?
>  > 
>  Same way as you always did, as far as I can see.  System Settings > Advanced > 
>  File Associations - put extension into search box and move applications up 
>  and down the list so that the preferred one is at the top.
>  
>  Anne 
i should have said I am using Gnome. The way we used to do it was using:
System->Preferences->Hardware->Removable Drives and Media.

I can not find any System Settings->Advanced->File Associations
Is this a KDE thing?
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[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 21:54:12 Aaron Konstam wrote:
>  Let me try one more time. Someone must know the answer to this
> seemingly
>  critical question. How to arrange it that a particular application is
>  used to process a particular media?
>
>  totem for example will handle DVDs or it will handle CDs, etc, etc and
>  so forth.
>
>  As a further example :
>  http://www.fedorafaq.org/
>  explains how totem can be used to play DVDs. Well if you install vlc
>  that application becomes the default for DVDs. How can that be changed?
>   
Same way as you always did, as far as I can see.  System Settings > Advanced
> 
File Associations - put extension into search box and move applications up 
and down the list so that the preferred one is at the top.

Anne

[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:54:12 -0500
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; wrote:

>  Let me try one more time. Someone must know the answer to this
> seemingly
>  critical question. How to arrange it that a particular application is
>  used to process a particular media? 
Right-click on the file's icon, select Properties - Open with

Select the program that you want to use to open files of that type.

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