changing default "movie player?"

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:14:52 -0400
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

> On 03/07/10 21:05, Rikke D. Giles wrote:
> > On 07/03/2010 05:58:17 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >    
> >>      Where is the default movie player set?
> >>      
> >
> > In gnome it's on the multimedia tab under system ->  preferences ->
> > preferred applications.  No idea where it is with KDE.
> >
> > Rikke
> >    
> 
>     I changed it there to no avail. I still have to save clips to play
>     them with VLC which works without a fuss. I don't need it often
> but when I do I don't want to jump through hoops ... I normally use
> XFCE but switched back to Gnome to make that change. It hasn't worked.
> 
>     I am running F-13 if that makes a difference.
> 
>     Bob
> 

Bob:
In xfce, right click on the file in whatever file manager, select
whatever player in the popup where you'll also get to make it the
preferred player of whatever file type. Or not.

-- cmg