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Suggested on https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361705
Suggested on https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361705
For example to make <code>geeqie</code>, <code>mpv</code>, <code>onlyoffice-desktopeditors</code>, <code>qutebrowser</code>, <code>vifm</code>, <code>zathura</code>


[[Category: Linux]]
[[Category: Linux]]

Revision as of 21:41, 3 September 2020

This generates the xdg-mime commands for each .desktop files and all mimetypes they contain:

find /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications \
  -iname '*.desktop' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' d; do
    for m in $(grep MimeType "$d" | cut -d= -f2 | tr ";" " "); do
        echo xdg-mime default "'${d##/*/}'" "'$m'"
    done
done

Suggested on https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361705

For example to make geeqie, mpv, onlyoffice-desktopeditors, qutebrowser, vifm, zathura