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Moilleadóir
Asked: 2016-06-24 23:40:09 +0800 CST

Can’t add Mediainfo to Open With list (using Nemo or mimeopen)

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[While researching this problem I have found a work-around, but I’m still curious to see if anyone can explain why this is happening.]

In the past I’m certain I’d added mediainfo-gui to the Open With list using Nemo. I’ve no idea what Nemo actually does when you do this, but it was working fine in Nemo, Thunar and Nautilus. Recently I noticed the association had disappeared, but when I tried to add it back it didn’t work. I tried doing it via command line, using mimeopen -d on a target file. This worked, but when I set the default back to the program I wanted, Mediainfo disappeared again.

I wonder if part of the problem is that /usr/share/application/mediainfo-gui.desktop has a Mimetype= line that contains no mimetypes? My workaround was to copy mimetypes from vlc.desktop (possibly overkill?) and then run sudo update-desktop-database.

[Ubuntu 14.04.4]

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1 Answers

  1. I've done some research and created what I believe is the proper Nemo-specific solution: create a file ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/mediainfo.nemo_action with the content

    [Nemo Action]

Name=MediaInfo

Quote=double

Icon-Name=mediainfo

Exec=mediainfo-gui %F

Selection=notnone

Mimetypes=audio/*;video/*;

    This will make it show up in the context menu the way it does with most other file managers. Of course a more generic way would be to add those two mimetypes to the .desktop file, which puts it in the Open With list.

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