Xfce: How to change the default program for a file extension

Henning Koch

November 14, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

This is super stupid:

In the Thunar file manager, select the file
Go to File / Properties / Open With (WTF!)
Select the preferred application from the list and hit "Set default"

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This setting will apply to all files with that extension.

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2012-11-14 16:17)