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## Users may set their own Users may set their own mime preferences in $HOME/.mime.types .

FileSystem


Definition of MIME: See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

System-wide mime types are set in /etc/mime.types .

Users may set their own mime preferences in $HOME/.mime.types .

Applications may have their own mime-rules. How they implement and record those rules is up to each application.

Nautilus

You can select the program to handle a file, typing in ["Nautilus"]

  applications:///Preferences/Advanced

and selecting file types and programs.

Other way is use the FileTypesProperties . Type in a ["terminal"]

 gnome-file-types-properties

You can add system MIME preferences, instead of install webbrowser standalone plugins (see ["Mozilla"], ?"MozPluggerMIME").

Mozilla and Nautilus

The Gnome Nautilus Mime Type configuration tool will also define mime types for Mozilla. The configuration tool /usr/bin/gnome-file-types-properties will edit the following user configuration files:

  • $HOME/.gnome/mime-info/user.keys: List mime types and the associated application/viewer.
  • $HOME/.gnome/mime-info/user.mime: Mime types and the associted file extention

System values:

  • /usr/share/mime-info/gnome.mime

See also: