On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:47, H <agents at ...> wrote: > On 02/27/2016 07:56 PM, Yamaban wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:38, H <agents at ...> wrote: >> >> > It turns out my markdown files - extension .md - are of the "Genesis ROM" >> > file type in Centos 6. Googling did not turn up any obvious places to >> > change this in Gnome - neither in my local directory or in /etc/gnome. >> > >> > Where would I be able to change this default file type for files with the >> > extension .md? I have already changed the default application to geany >> > (with the markdown extension.) >> > >> > Thank you. >> >> have a look at these: >> /etc/mime.types (file) >> /usr/share/mime/ (dirs) >> /usr/share/mimelnk/ (dirs) >> /usr/share/mime-info (dir) >> >> grep for '\.md' and/or for 'Genesis ROM' in there. >> >> Just adding your own line to /etc/mime.types may look nice, but is possibly >> not what you want, more likely a new entry in a file or directory under >> ~/.local/share/mime/ >> >> Have a nice weekend >> - Yamaban. >> > Files in ~/.local/share/mime also seem to have been automatically generated by > update-mime-database and should not be edited. Should I still create a new > file for the ".md" extension and add it to this directory? Huh? The "orignal" text/x-markdown file should already exist globally: /usr/share/mime/text/x-markdown.xml also generated from tis file: /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml but, feel free to do so: [code] mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mime/text cp -t ~/.local/share/mime/text /usr/share/mime/text/x-markdown.xml [/code] or, create is yourself, short version content follows (view mail as source or plain text if not shown) [code] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mime-type xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" type="text/x-markdown"> <comment>Markdown document</comment> <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/> <glob pattern="*.md"/> <glob pattern="*.mkd"/> <glob pattern="*.markdown"/> </mime-type> [/code]