[Gnome 3]Edit "Open with" menu (duplicates)

Is there a way to delete any entries on this menu? In gnome 2 I used alacarta.
http://i.imgur.com/DwDBu.png
Last edited by archel (2011-11-09 12:47:01)

This was the same issue in Ubuntu ( Gnome 2 ) and Wine.
Last I can remember is manually clearing them from ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/share/applications
Have fun

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If you are nervous about using Terminal forcommand a you may understand, not I concur with Bjorn. It is a means of resetting the menu.
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Hi,
Using nautilus, I used to have an "open with" menu showing a list of alternative applications to open a file, such as in this picture:
https://ubuntugenius.files.wordpress.co … .png?w=500
This was quite handy as I could use different applications to open the same type of file without changing the default association each time I use an alternative application.
Since I have updated my system, Gnome has been upgraded and now there is only an "open with another application" entry in the "right click menu", which, if I use it, change the default application for the type of the selected file.
The list of alternative applications is still the same as before, but the behaviour is now different, since these application do not appear directly in the menu any more, and since selecting any of them will change the default file-application association. For me, this is a bit annoying since I wants to use two different applications to open the same type of file.
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Last edited by charlie (2015-04-14 14:49:02)

That behavior of nautilus seems to be a new "feature". I really have no idea why they change such things.
At least, there's allready a bugreport for this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747706

Duplicate Entries on "Open With" Menu.

The subject pretty much explains the problem.
I haven't made any major changes to my system, but I recently noticed that when I right click (2 button mouse) on something and go to the Open With menu, I now have duplicate entries.
IE: Adobe Image Ready
Adobe Image Ready
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
I think you get the point.
This seems to only be when I do this to images.
Any Ideas.
Thanks
Steve Cohen

That's handled by LaunchServices and sounds like a corrupt database. See http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html and
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Why are there duplicate results in the Open With menu?

I own an iMac with the latest version of OSX (I forget what it is). As you can see in this image, I am going to open an image using the Open With menu, and there are a lot of repeats. In addition to the repeats, some apps show up that no longer exist and some apps don't show up that still do exist. For example, I no longer have RockMelt on my operating system. I also don't have the version of Pixelmator listed: I trashed that version and installed a different version, but when I click on Pixelmator in the menu, it reverts to Preview because that version of Pixelmator no longer exists. This is a minor issue but it is really bothering me because whenever I want to open Pixelmator, I have to go through the whole process of clicking Other and browsing my applications folders to get to it. Any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated and I would reward you with imaginary cookies (Yum!).
Seriously though, I need help.

Boot in safe mode. This will cause certain caches maintained by the system to be rebuilt.
Safe mode is much slower to boot than normal.
When the login screen appears, reboot as usual (not in safe mode) and test. There's no need to log in while in safe mode.
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this occurs only with quicktime and .flv, .wmv, .divx and .asf files.
i´ve tryed following terminal command
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LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister \ -kill -f -r -domain local
-domain system -domain user
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OK, got you on the "Default".
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Open System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" make it an admin account.
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Did you restart or log out after the command ran?
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http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15030/how-can-i-add-a-new-application-t o-the-open-with-menu
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Make x64 default with "open with" menu

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1)open terminal and copy and paste:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
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enter and wait the prompt
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OR
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/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html#Anchor-Reset-47857
where I learned all I needed to do to straighten things out was delete the following cache files from HD/Library/Caches:
com.apple.LaunchServices-0140.csstore
com.apple.LaunchServices-014nnn.csstore
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I was under the impression that one reason to use Parallels rather than bootcamp was precisely for that reason, that one can run apps in both systems at the same time.
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I know VLC is not Apple software, but my question is not about the player but the Open With menu/window.
As you can see in the photo, when I choose a file to Open With a series of applications, I get more "versions" of VLC I don't know why only VLC and not the others.
I have the 2.0.6 version if it can be of any help, and before my latest update I only had 3 in that menu, now I have 4 VLC's so to speak.
Even before that, before previous updates, I had 2 VLC's in the Open With menu.
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You need to rebuild your launch services database.
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