Tonight I was trying to change the default application handler for .mpgs on my computer, running Gentoo 2006.0 with Gnome 2.12. As is the case with Gnome (and yes, I still like Gnome best) configuring things can be trying. I went through all the Gnome settings, Nautilus preferences, until I finally discovered: application preferences are changed by right-clicking on the file in question, selecting properties, and going to the Open With tab, then selecting the application you want to use.

I spend too much time in the console, I suppose.

I just thought I'd share this tidbit in case anyone else is searching as well.

Thank You.

Glad it helped somebody.

Awesome, thanks

exactly what i was looking for. Thanks

many thanks

Man I was looking for a way to do that for hours. Thanks a bunch.

Ok, I just tried this.

I am trying to make it open a video with mplayer. It wants to open it with totem. So I click on the tab, select mplayer, close the tab. I click on the file, and it still opens it with totem. I go back in and look, and mplayer is still selected. I try this as root, same thing. Totem can't play the file, but mplayer can.

AARGH!

Makes me almost want to use KDE.

Nice tip!

I removed totem....

Thanks, nice to see that somebody is taking time to post solutions, not only problems. Gave me exactly what I needed.

simple easy solution, and I'd spent ages looking for a list of file associations. Been using Windows for too long I guess!!!

Many thanks!

Helpful even today thanks man!

Been annoyed for months, amazing how simple that was, thank you sir.

Interesting post really, however linux way is not sticking to GUI. If you are interested on how the file associations are created via console, see this tutorial http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-51012.html

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