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Tomislav Nakic-Alfirevic
Asked: 2012-09-21 04:51:56 +0800 CST

How do you select an arbitrary application to "open with"? [duplicate]

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Add custom command in the open with dialog?

I would like to open e.g. webm files using mplayer, but it is not available in the "Open With" dialogue and (quite frustratingly) the dialogue no longer allows selection of the program to use from the file system.

Is there a conf file I can edit directly to get this done?

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2 Answers

  1. If you'r using 11.10 i found this for an application called nedit.

    Quoting mc4man

    fairly easy - nedit's .desktop is missing something to allow it to be shown in the r. click context menu

    Code:
gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/nedit.desktop

    find the Exec= line & add a %f to end, leave a space between nedit & %f - ignore the untitled document 1 that also opens - close it without saving, do save the nedit.desktop

    Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=NEdit
Exec=nedit %f
Icon=Nedit
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Motif;Utility;TextTools;
GenericName=Text editor
GenericName[en]=Text editor
GenericName[nl]=Tekst verwerker

    Then you'll find it by right clicking on your file > open with > other applications After that it will be shown directly in the r. click menu

    If you wish to set nedit as default for all text files then use the right click > Properties > open with instead

    If, in other hand, you're using 12.04 you can do it like this:

    If you want to delete applications from the openwith list you have to edit the following file from command line

    /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

    If you added item by yourself, or you want to add new item you need to edit the following file from command line

    ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

    default actions you need to edit the following file from command line

    ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

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  2. There will be one more option like open with other application , select that . a window will open with browse option and navigate to usr and then to bin folder and there you can select the application you want .

    I am using KDE and i will post those images and i hope they will help you to understand . enter image description here enter image description here enter image description here

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