On February 28, 2016 1:14:08 PM EST, H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote: >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] >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >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"... Found the problem with the disappearing file type for pdf-documents: I had been too quick editing the freedesktop org.XML file which is now corrected. I am still unable to have .md files displayed as markdown files - display as "text/plain type" - and in addition I seem to have lost my icons... Tried to back out but the icons are still absent. Clearly an edit I made caused this.