[ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"

[Bill Cairns]

Thanks to all who replied - the problem was easily solved.

But could you share a bit more about the whys and hows here for the
general information of an ignoramus? Am I correct in considering this
a Nautilus problem or is it somewhere a bit deeper and system related?
I notice that Dolphin has the same choice of Applications but does not
have an "Open with" option in the Properties menu. How would I change
my preferred application with Dolphin? (It allows me to use another
application to open a .pdf file (which I am using to test), but I
cannot see how I could change it permanently. How would I change it
using the command line?

Is there a user configuration file hidden under there somewhere which
maps file types to applications?

I presume that regarding the .pdf suffix is to provide Windows
compatibility. How does the system (or is it Nautilus / Dolphin) know
that a file is a PDF file (as opposed to a .pdf file)?

All for the sake of better understanding what goes on ...

Thanks,
  Bill

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM, William Walter Kinghorn
<williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi Bill.
>
> Try, Right click on file , Properties, Open With tab, select what you want to do with file
>
> William
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> From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Bill Cairns [cairnsww at gmail.com]
> Sent: 10 April 2012 17:23
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Miles <msdomdonner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com>
>> Reply-to: Ubuntu South African Local Community
>> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"
>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11:36 +0200
>>
>> How does this assignment of application to files work? At one stage I
>> did an "Open with" Calibre of a .pdf file and (I presume" left the
>> "Always use..." box ticked. . Since then, every time I click on a .pdf
>> file Calibre grabs it - this despite my trying to reassign them to the
>> document viewer. I have a similar problem with bash script files - it
>> has decided that AbiWord is the correct application to open them when
>> I click on them and select "Open with". Gedit - my preferred
>> application does not even appear as an option despite my going to "Use
>> other application" and selecting it.
>>
>> I am not sure when these problems started, but they have been going on
>> for some time. I have been running 10.04 since it was released and the
>> problem was certainly not there from the beginning. It has really
>> become a nuisance since calibre started grabbing all the .pdf fines -
>> my Calibre library is beginning to have lots of strange "eBooks" in it
>> that I am not likely to ever load onto my reader!
>>
>>
>> Hi Bill. right click and open with other application, then choose what
>> you want to use to open them. untick the remeber this block if you only
>> want to go that route once
>> Hope this helps
>> Miles
>
> Thanks Miles - yes I know that is how it is supposed to work. But in
> my case it doesn't.
>
> I have just done it again.
>
> Right click on a .pdf file.
>
> Up comes the drop down menu:
> Open with Calibre
> Open with Document Viewer
> <some other choices>
> Other Application
>
> I chose Other Application, select Document Viewer, leave "remember
> this application for "PDF" files" ticked
>
> Document viewer opens up. I close it.
>
> Right click on the same .pdf file
>
> I get exactly the same drop down menu as before with Calibre heading
> up the list.
>
> Something fishy?
>
> Bill
>
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