Bug 102063

Summary:	xdg-open ignores mimeapps.list
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Nazar Mokrynskyi <nazar>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.1.0 rc3
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Nazar Mokrynskyi 2017-08-07 04:29:26 UTC

nazar-pc@nazar-pc ~> cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list 
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=nemo.desktop
application/x-gnome-saved-search=nemo.desktop
text/xml=org.gnome.gedit.desktop
video/x-matroska=smplayer.desktop
nazar-pc@nazar-pc ~> xdg-mime query default video/x-matroska
smplayer.desktop

The above is enough to open *.mkv files in Nemo file manager with SMPlayer, but when using xdg-open it still always uses MPV.

Also, `xdg-mime query filetype '/path/to/file.mkv'` doesn't output anything for the files I'm having issues with. So looks like it struggles to determine its mime type, but somehow still manages to select wrong application by guessing.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2017-11-29 20:18:58 UTC

does ~/.config/mimeapps.list exist?  (if so, that is prefered)

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2017-11-29 20:28:13 UTC

Seems to work for me using ~/.config/mimeapps.list :

# current default
$ xdg-mime query default video/x-matroska
org.kde.dragonplayer.desktop

$ echo 'video/x-matroska=smplayer.desktop;' >> ~/.config/mimeapps.list

$ xdg-mime query default video/x-matroska
smplayer.desktop

tested under kde plasma5 and also using 

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=generic DE=generic xdg-mime ...

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