Chromium default apps

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 48#p684348
http://archlinux.me/dusty/2009/12/14/a-quick-laugh/
Jokes aside, how do I assign what's what? I know its xdg whatever but what do I use to customise default apps?
I deliberately uninstalled firefox so chromium stopped trying to open everything in it.

tom5760 wrote:Actually, semi-recently, the xdg-open script got a bit smarter. If you have the "perl-file-mimeinfo" package installed, xdg-open will use mimeopen (if you are not useing kde, gnome) to open files. With mimeopen, you can use "mimeopen -d" with any file to specify which program to open them with. After that, chromium will use that app to open files with that mimetype.
THANK YOU! it was driving me mad, that file associations messed up after I removed gnome and started using open box/compiz standalone. chromium would open folders in firefox and other apps won't launch :S. but this tip solved all that ^^
I love you man!

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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