hi -
i don't do it this way... i have cleared all my associations in Firefox
and Thunderbird since nothing ever seems to work all the time...
cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list ~/.local/share/applications
and changed all the types there to map to my preferred applications...
anything gtk seems to use this list in kde...
seems to work without a hitch... it will be available here for a bit...
http://queuemail.com/defaults.list
cheers
paul
On 04/06/2009 04:57 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:05 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> I accidentally typed "VNC" when I meant "VLC" when
Thunderbird asked
>> me how to open a .wmv file and to make matters worse I clicked on the
>> box to always do that!
>>
>> Now I can't find how to undo that selection.
>>
>
> Does Thunderbird have a mimeTypes.rdf file in your profile, like Firefox
> has? If so, you could modify the action for wmv, manually. Ensure the
> program is not running at all while you do this.
>
> Firefox's: ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/mimeTypes.rdf
>
>
In /home/bobg/.thunderbird/inggc4ck.default/mimeTypes I changed vnc to
vlc on two lines which then caused it to once more ask me what
application I wanted to use!
<RDF:Description
RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:video/x-ms-wmv"
NC:path="/usr/bin/vlc"
NC:prettyName="vlc"
And that fixes the problem, I selected vlc and the file played.
Thanks for the help.
Bob