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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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?