Changed mime type associations !

I recently installed gimp, and now when I open any downloaded pdf files, they are opened in gimp.
Files previously downloaded and saved are however opened in 'evince'. I use open-box, Chromium, Rox-filer and evince, as DE, browser, file-manager and document viewer respectively.
I searched the wiki and found two entries that I thought might help, Default Applications and Custom file associations, I've tried both user specific options in these pages, here are the files I created:-
[bance@archbox ~]$ cat .local/share/applications/defaults.list
[Default Applications]
pdf=evince.desktop
[bance@archbox ~]$ cat .local/share/applications/evince.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Evince
Exec=/usr/bin/evince
MimeType=application/x-evince
Icon=evince
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=DocumentViewer
Comment=
Neither of these has worked, do the files look ok? Have I made a mistake somewhere?
OK whilst writing this post, I noticed that I have a file /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, It contains a list of mime type associations, would editing this work?
TIA Steve

you need!! the inode/directory setting in the mimetype list. That's what chromium reads to autopen your file manager.
Make sure it matches the .desktop file appropriate for your file manager. In the case of spacefm, it is not spacefm.desktop as you might expect, it is spacefm-folder-handler.desktop.
Check your .desktop files for your fm.
If you're still having trouble, you might want to post your mimeapps.list
I noticed in post1 you were using defaults.list instead. Reading the wiki is not super clear on this, but since I downloaded the pkg 'mimeo' I used mimeapps.list instead.
I assume you read the file extension portion of the chromium part of the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … sociations
Moderator: Please take care to not duplicate entries when you forgot some information. Use the "Edit" button instead. And if you did inadvertently as in this case, please notify the moderators with the "Report" button so they can take action.
Deleting the doubled entry. -- bernarcher
Last edited by bernarcher (2013-02-03 02:00:49)

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