[CentOS] Changing default file type in Centos 6
H
agents at meddatainc.com
Sun Feb 28 18:14:08 UTC 2016
On 02/28/2016 04:08 PM, Yamaban wrote:
> 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]
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No, I don't have x-markdown.xml, nor is markdown mentioned in
freedesktop.org.xml.
I did follow your suggestion, first created the ~/.local/share/mime/text
directory and then copied the code you listed into the file
x-markdown.xml into that same directory.
Unfortunately the ".md" files still show as "plain text document" - is
there something else I should do?
In the process I also lost the file type for pdf-documents which now
show as file type "unknown"...
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