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Questions - xdgutils

How do you make xdg-utils detect a file association for my application from a distribution package?

I am building a distribution package for xnec2c and I want .nec files to associate with xnec2c and also display the associated icon. (This question is different than the many xdg-utils answers out the...
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x11

gnome

window-managers

file-association

xdgutils

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Answers: 1

Latest Answer

You don't need to run the mime-* tools, but you do need to update the desktop and icon associations for the freedesktop environment after install like so: update-mime-database /usr/share/mime update-d...
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How do you remove an xdg-mime default association?

So xdgmime default foo.desktop application/x-foo will associate a mime type in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list like this: [Default Applications] ... application/x-foo=foo.desktop What is th...
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KJ7LNW

x11

gnome

window-managers

file-association

xdgutils

Votes: 0

Answers: 0

Copying all .desktop files to ~/.local/share/applications/

I'm trying to write a bash script to copy all .desktop files under /nix/store to ~/.local/share/applications/. I'm not particular good with bash, so I would like assistance. I used the find command to...
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MrBear

linux

bash

gnome

xdgutils

Votes: 0

Answers: 3

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#!/usr/bin/env bash files=$(find /nix/store -type f -name \*.desktop) readarray array <<<$files for i in ${array[@]}; do cp $i ~/.loca/share/applications/ done or find /nix/store -typ...
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