5:19 p.m.
This is F-19/64 XFCE.
How do I change the default video application to VLC. No matter what I
have done it insists on HandBrake. I want to change that ...
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
7:50 a.m.
On 20.08.2013 06:08, Ahmad Samir wrote:
You can get a list to put in mimeapps.list under [Added Associations]
using
something like this hack (remove the last "| grep video" to get a list of
all the mimetypes vlc supports):
$ grep MimeType /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop | perl -p -e
's/MimeType=//' | perl -p -e 's/;/=vlc.desktop;\n/g' | grep video
video/dv=vlc.desktop;
video/mpeg=vlc.desktop;
video/x-mpeg=vlc.desktop;
video/msvideo=vlc.desktop;
video/quicktime=vlc.desktop;
video/x-anim=vlc.desktop;
video/x-avi=vlc.desktop;
video/x-ms-asf=vlc.desktop;
video/x-ms-wmv=vlc.desktop;
video/x-msvideo=vlc.desktop;
video/x-nsv=vlc.desktop;
video/x-flc=vlc.desktop;
video/x-fli=vlc.desktop;
video/x-flv=vlc.desktop;
video/vnd.rn-realvideo=vlc.desktop;
video/mp4=vlc.desktop;
video/mp4v-es=vlc.desktop;
video/mp2t=vlc.desktop;
video/x-ogm+ogg=vlc.desktop;
video/x-matroska=vlc.desktop;
video/webm=vlc.desktop;
x-content/video-vcd=vlc.desktop;
x-content/video-svcd=vlc.desktop;
x-content/video-dvd=vlc.desktop;
You should consider to send this to uncle Bob, not to me. ;)
poma
5:18 a.m.
Of course, as soon as you upgrade your system, you'll
find that several .desktop files have been renamed
for no particular reason, and all the associations
you had working the way you wanted in your ~/.local
config files no longer function :-(.
10:31 a.m.
On 20.08.2013 15:23, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 20/08/13 08:50, poma wrote:
> You should consider to send this to uncle Bob, not to me. ;)
>
>
> poma
uncle Bob?
a.k.a. Grambob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXkgYZw0evs
You got that son?
poma
12:54 p.m.
On 19.08.2013 17:24, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni,
Virginia, USA wrote:
>
> How xdg-mime would be used to change this is not obvious to me after reading
> the man page.
It is actually not trivial! I do not think the mimetype argument to
xdg-mime takes a glob. This makes it more difficult since now you have
to set the default for each file type. Here is a simple example:
To find out the mimetype of a file:
$ xdg-mime query filetype Wait\ until\ dark\ -\ Audrey\ Hepburn.avi
video/x-msvideo
Now you can set the default like this:
$ xdg-mime default vlc.desktop video/x-msvideo
As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be
simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can.
If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
would be very interested to know.
Hope this helps,
Everyone is free to exercise their script-fu on
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, right. ;)
Let's see whether those who ask to at least try to achieve asked. :)
poma
10:24 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
How xdg-mime would be used to change this is not obvious to me after reading
the man page.
It is actually not trivial! I do not think the mimetype argument to
xdg-mime takes a glob. This makes it more difficult since now you have
to set the default for each file type. Here is a simple example:
To find out the mimetype of a file:
$ xdg-mime query filetype Wait\ until\ dark\ -\ Audrey\ Hepburn.avi
video/x-msvideo
Now you can set the default like this:
$ xdg-mime default vlc.desktop video/x-msvideo
As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be
simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can.
If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
would be very interested to know.
Hope this helps,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
9:08 a.m.
On 19/08/13 07:31, Suvayu Ali wrote:
If you prefer a graphical way, just right click the file
in thunar and update the "open with" field in the properties menu.
Hope this helps,
-- Suvayu
Yes certainly, that worked! But I expected a box for "always do this,"
there was none. It always defaulted to HandBrake no matter what I did. I
wasn't even sure that it was Thunar since to confuse the issue it is
renamed File Manager. Finally "alacarte" to the rescue where I could
look at the "properties" and then changed the launcher command to
/usr/bin/thunar.
It would seem simpler to fix from the command line if I knew what/where
the pertinent files were.
How xdg-mime would be used to change this is not obvious to me after
reading the man page.
Thanks,
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
11:08 p.m.
On 19 August 2013 23:42, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:54:05PM +0200, poma wrote:
> On 19.08.2013 17:24, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >
> > As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would
be
> > simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you
can.
> >
> > If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
> > would be very interested to know.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
[....]
However if you tell me mimeapps.list does support globs, I'll
shut up.
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
You can get a list to put in mimeapps.list under [Added Associations] using
something like this hack (remove the last "| grep video" to get a list of
all the mimetypes vlc supports):
$ grep MimeType /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop | perl -p -e
's/MimeType=//' | perl -p -e 's/;/=vlc.desktop;\n/g' | grep video
video/dv=vlc.desktop;
video/mpeg=vlc.desktop;
video/x-mpeg=vlc.desktop;
video/msvideo=vlc.desktop;
video/quicktime=vlc.desktop;
video/x-anim=vlc.desktop;
video/x-avi=vlc.desktop;
video/x-ms-asf=vlc.desktop;
video/x-ms-wmv=vlc.desktop;
video/x-msvideo=vlc.desktop;
video/x-nsv=vlc.desktop;
video/x-flc=vlc.desktop;
video/x-fli=vlc.desktop;
video/x-flv=vlc.desktop;
video/vnd.rn-realvideo=vlc.desktop;
video/mp4=vlc.desktop;
video/mp4v-es=vlc.desktop;
video/mp2t=vlc.desktop;
video/x-ogm+ogg=vlc.desktop;
video/x-matroska=vlc.desktop;
video/webm=vlc.desktop;
x-content/video-vcd=vlc.desktop;
x-content/video-svcd=vlc.desktop;
x-content/video-dvd=vlc.desktop;
10:52 p.m.
On 19.08.2013 23:42, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:54:05PM +0200, poma wrote:
> On 19.08.2013 17:24, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>
>> As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be
>> simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can.
>>
>> If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
>> would be very interested to know.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>
> Everyone is free to exercise their script-fu on
> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, right. ;)
> Let's see whether those who ask to at least try to achieve asked. :)
To quote yourself: "but it seems that some people just do not read". ;)
Please read my post again. Unless I'm mistaken, mimeapps.list does not
support globs. There is no way of of providing video/* or audio/*, say
as .mailcap allows you to. Do I make myself clear now? You will need a
separate line for every file type, no amount of scripting can help you
deal with that.
However if you tell me mimeapps.list does support globs, I'll shut up.
Cheers,
I'm very well-read what you wrote, but here we're talking about how to
do it in Xfce.
If you really want to, gnome supports this feature.
Otherwise I don't see what the problem is in a single format mapping.
You don't have to shut up, speak freely. :)
poma
7:07 p.m.
On 19/08/13 11:24, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni,
Virginia, USA wrote:
> How xdg-mime would be used to change this is not obvious to me after reading
> the man page.
It is actually not trivial! I do not think the mimetype argument to
xdg-mime takes a glob. This makes it more difficult since now you have
to set the default for each file type. Here is a simple example:
To find out the mimetype of a file:
$ xdg-mime query filetype Wait\ until\ dark\ -\ Audrey\ Hepburn.avi
video/x-msvideo
Now you can set the default like this:
$ xdg-mime default vlc.desktop video/x-msvideo
As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be
simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can.
If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
would be very interested to know.
Hope this helps,
Now I see that XFCE Settings has a "MIME Type Editor" with which it
appears you can set the desired applications, for each video format in
this case. I did not know what it was for until now. So I guess I
learned something from all this.
Thanks,
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
4:42 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:54:05PM +0200, poma wrote:
On 19.08.2013 17:24, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
> As you can see, you have to repeat this for all file types. It would be
> simpler if you could just say 'video/*', but I don't think you can.
>
> If someone knows an easier way to add a class of files in one go, I
> would be very interested to know.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
Everyone is free to exercise their script-fu on
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, right. ;)
Let's see whether those who ask to at least try to achieve asked. :)
To quote yourself: "but it seems that some people just do not read". ;)
Please read my post again. Unless I'm mistaken, mimeapps.list does not
support globs. There is no way of of providing video/* or audio/*, say
as .mailcap allows you to. Do I make myself clear now? You will need a
separate line for every file type, no amount of scripting can help you
deal with that.
However if you tell me mimeapps.list does support globs, I'll shut up.
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
7:36 a.m.
On 19.08.2013 13:31, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 03:33:02AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni,
Virginia, USA wrote:
>
> But I did find that changing the File Manager icon to point to "thunar"
> instead of "thunar settings" does what I want. I don't recall setting
that
> to thunar settings? Not sure what's going on there but it is working as
> desired now. I'll try a query on the XFCE list later.
As far as I know XFCE uses XDG. So setting the defaults with xdg-mime
should do it. If you prefer a graphical way, just right click the file
in thunar and update the "open with" field in the properties menu.
Hope this helps,
It has already been written[1], but it seems that some people just do
not read. ;)
poma
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-April/434734.html
6:31 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 03:33:02AM -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
But I did find that changing the File Manager icon to point to "thunar"
instead of "thunar settings" does what I want. I don't recall setting that
to thunar settings? Not sure what's going on there but it is working as
desired now. I'll try a query on the XFCE list later.
As far as I know XFCE uses XDG. So setting the defaults with xdg-mime
should do it. If you prefer a graphical way, just right click the file
in thunar and update the "open with" field in the properties menu.
Hope this helps,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
2:33 a.m.
On 19/08/13 00:47, Jatin K wrote:
On Sunday 18 August 2013 03:49 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
>
> This is F-19/64 XFCE.
>
> How do I change the default video application to VLC. No matter what
> I have done it insists on HandBrake. I want to change that ...
>
> Bob
>
may be this [1] can help you ... I'm not sure, as I'm not using xfce
[1] http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/preferred-applications
I have looked at that before but don't see a way to set VLC as default?
But I did find that changing the File Manager icon to point to "thunar"
instead of "thunar settings" does what I want. I don't recall setting
that to thunar settings? Not sure what's going on there but it is
working as desired now. I'll try a query on the XFCE list later.
Thanks,
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
11:47 p.m.
On Sunday 18 August 2013 03:49 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
This is F-19/64 XFCE.
How do I change the default video application to VLC. No matter what I
have done it insists on HandBrake. I want to change that ...
Bob
may be this [1] can help you ... I'm not sure, as I'm not using xfce
[1] http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/preferred-applications
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No M$
10:11 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net> wrote:
This is F-19/64 XFCE.
How do I change the default video application to VLC. No matter what I have
done it insists on HandBrake. I want to change that ...
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
Would the solution not be to right-click on the video and click vlc,
after which at some point it asks if you would if you always want to
open with said program? I forget how exactly XFCE works, though
assumingly the later isn't as far from Gnome as this, if I am correct.
8:23 a.m.
On 20/08/13 08:50, poma wrote:
You should consider to send this to uncle Bob, not to me. ;)
poma
uncle Bob?
a.k.a. Grambob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
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