When I click on a word attachment in an email I have received in gmail from chromium, it always opens the file using abiword. How can I persuade it to use libreoffice instead? I am using lubuntu 12.10.
When I click on a word attachment in an email I have received in gmail from chromium, it always opens the file using abiword. How can I persuade it to use libreoffice instead? I am using lubuntu 12.10.
Chromium uses
xdg-open
to open the application for a file type. So, all you need to do is adjust yourxdg
configuration, or in other words change the default application that handles a particular file type.To associate a particular application to a file type or Mime Type (MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), we make an entry in
~/.local/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list
stating that a particular application to be opened when a file with the correspoding mime type is opened.I've provided sources below, in case you want to know more about mime types
In this case, do the following:
In case, you've Libreoffice 4 installed, run:
Further information & Sources: