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phil294

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Registered: 2022-08-19

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Default applications don't seem to correspond to xdg-mime

Hello,

I've associated text/plain with Mousepad as seen below:

And this works great, it's the default in Thunar etc. Except I'd expect

xdg-mime query default text/plain

to return mousepad too, but it says

wine-extension-txt.desktop

. This is problematic: Applications may open the default editor for something programmatically using xdg-mime (I'm trying to do exactly this), and the resulting application is something the user does not want to see / has never configured! Is this a bug? What is going on?

Here is a more detailed log:

$ env XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=10 xdg-mime query default text/plain
Checking /home/phi/.config/mimeapps.list
Checking /home/phi/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
Checking /home/phi/.local/share/applications/xfce-defaults.list and /home/phi/.local/share/applications/xfce-mimeinfo.cache
Checking /home/phi/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and /home/phi/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
wine-extension-txt.desktop

In .config/mimeapps.list, there *is* Mousepad, but only as an "Added Association":

[Added Associations]
x-scheme-handler/http=xfce4-web-browser.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=xfce4-web-browser.desktop;
text/html=org.xfce.mousepad.desktop;firefox.desktop;

As far as I understand, this should not make it become the default. When I move it to [Default Applications], it is detected by xdg-mime too.

It is possible that I once manually edited mimepps.list, so maybe it's an exotic problem - or maybe not. Bug either way?

Last edited by phil294 (2022-08-19 22:50:29)

ToZ

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Re: Default applications don't seem to correspond to xdg-mime

I have a similar problem when I (think) I create a new wine prefix - it creates associations and defaults them to active. Here is a wine faq entry on how to prevent that from happening (though I haven't tried it yet).

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phil294

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Registered: 2022-08-19

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Re: Default applications don't seem to correspond to xdg-mime

Thanks! But just for clarification, this isn't specific to Wine. If I remove the Wine stuff, xdg-mime opens up Atom instead and so on. Still a mismatch.

KBar

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Re: Default applications don't seem to correspond to xdg-mime

Even if you "remove the Wine stuff", any configuration that it changed at some point on top of its own config files will remain active on your system.

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phil294

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Registered: 2022-08-19

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Re: Default applications don't seem to correspond to xdg-mime

I meant removing Wine's entry from the mime database. Then just the next editor takes its place.

In other words, this thread has nothing to do with Wine, but with the fact that xdg-mime and Xfce default applications show different results.