Query which desktop files can handle a mime type: Open with from the terminal?
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So if I add a desktop to entry
~/.local/share/applications/something.desktop
then it shows up in the "Open with..." menu in KDE straight away. I would quite like to be able to get this same information from the command line.
Is there a way of querying this? I had a look an xdg-mime
which can show the default application, and set the default application to this newly created desktop entry but seems unable to list them all. Obviously I could just code up something to parse all the desktop entries - but this seems besides the point.
There is this stuff about mimeinfo.cache
and mimeapp.list
but this seems parallel to these files - since open with... lists shows the new desktop entry, but it is missing from both these files.
How do I show all desktop files that can handle a mimetype from the command-line?
Asked by Att Righ
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Apr 4, 2025, 06:27 PM
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