Disclaimer: Cross-posted from SU (which I know is usually discouraged) _How to set a shell script as KDE file association_ . Since with only 14 views and no response whatsoever within 3 days I do not have much hope there. ---- I'm connecting to a Win10 with an *.rdp file supplied by _Citrix Netscaler Gateway_ via download in my FF. I wrote a shell script that takes the *.rdp file as $1 and it works in _Bash_:

bash
...
set -x
xfreerdp "$1" /monitors:0,2 /floatbar:sticky:off,default:hidden,show:always /u: /p:
...

To be able to run this script from within GUI apps I created a new _File Association_ with _Known Type_: _application/rdp_ since *.RPD, *.rdp was assigned to _Remmina_ before (and I removed these two from there): There's a ~/.local/share/applications/Bash-RDP.desktop. In FF I have set: But, this neither works when opening the downloaded *.rdp in FF's downloads drop-down or _Downloads Library_ nor in my _Downloads_ folder in _Dolphin_. If I do so _xfreerdp_ appears in the taskbar with a progress circle for a few seconds only and without any further visual representation. And an _xfreerdp_ task remains at every try which I have to kill afterwards.

I run Firefox from a Flatpak but I can't find how to have it open links when I click them in various XDG-compliant apps. How can I have xdg-open run Firefox from a Flatpak distribution? The application itself shows in preferences that it is not the default browser. It offers a button to set itself as default but it seems to have no effect.

Let's say I have xarchiver installed by default, and associated by default with most archive types. I've installed engrampa, and now want to assciate it with the various archive types instead. I don't want to change each MIME association individually. When I uninstalled xarchiver, the associations for various archive types automatically changed to engrampa. Is there a way to do this without uninstalling xarchiver? Something like "assciate application X with all MIME types it supports"? --- I'm using Fedora 38 XFCE spin, if it matters.

After installing Wine and Python 2.7 in Wine, and then removing Wine, the plain text file format cannot be changed away from Python File (no console).

By default (on a double-click action), my GUI file manager (nemo) runs a text editor, for all files of mimetype=text/plain. I currently have a user text file gnuplot.speedtest (with mimetype text/plain), which I'd like to treat differently, by running gnuplot instead. Obviously, I still want the standard default to apply to all other text files.

In Thunderbird, I can set handler for opening files for given extension. Preferences -> Attachements I have specified I want to use /usr/bin/mpv for opening wav files. And I see that my preference has been saved in my profiles directory in handlers.json: "audio/x-wav":{"action":2,"extensions":["wav"],"handlers":[{"name":"mpv","path":"/usr/bin/mpv"}]}},"schemes":{}} But I also need to specify commandline arguments to use, when opening with mpv: Thunderbird tries to open file as mpv file.wav instead, I need the file to be opened as: mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui file.wav How can I tell Thunderbird to use commandline arguments ?

The other day, KDE/Dolphin seem to have lost all file associations, and the "open with" dialog box no longer presents a list of my applications. If I type an application shortcut name like "kate" into the dialog box, it will open it with kate. Presumably, some config file got corrupted somehow, but which file is that? And can I rebuild it automatically from the list of applications in my start menu? Edit: It seems this is only happening in certain folders. Edit: I tried the thing in the comment DK Bose and that fixed it. james@Q35~/nfs-cloud/websites/test_flask_site/static $ locate mimeapps.list /home/james/.config/mimeapps.list /home/james/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list /home/james/Downloads/haroopad-v0.13.1-x64/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list james@Q35~/nfs-cloud/websites/test_flask_site/static $ mv /home/james/.config/mimeapps.list /home/james/.config/mimeapps.list.bak james@Q35~/nfs-cloud/websites/test_flask_site/static $ mv /home/james/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list /home/james/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.bak james@Q35~/nfs-cloud/websites/test_flask_site/static $ mv /home/james/Downloads/haroopad-v0.13.1-x64/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list /home/james/Downloads/haroopad-v0.13.1-x64/usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list.bak

I am running Linux in the form of openSuse Leap 15.0 with KDE Plasma 5.12.6 and have applied patches regularly. If I run some applications, for example Gimp (2.8.22), and ask for help, it starts Seamonkey in edit mode. Specifically, in Gimp, when I choose Help - User Manual - Basic Concepts from the menu, a Seamonkey process is opened with command /bin/sh /usr/bin/seamonkey -edit /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en_GB/gimp-concepts-main-windows.html I have looked in various configuration settings (e.g. in Settings - System Settings from the menu, then Personalisation - Applications - Default Applications - Web Browser, where Firefox is specified for **http**(**s**)), but cannot see where it says to use Seamonkey.

I'm using Cinnamon on Devuan ASCII (which is essentially Debian Stretch without systemd). I'm trying to change the default player for AVI files from Dragon player to Gnome-MPV. But - while this seems to be possible, after making the change the default player is _still_ Dragon - nothing has happened. I would try to debug this myself if I'd gotten any kind of an error message, but I don't even have that. What do I do?

I wrote Python script to open pickled figure files, called it view_fig_pickle.py and put it into ~/bin directory. Now how to associate it with file with endings '.fig.pickle'?