[Solved] Change preferred applications in gnome-shell

Question

I already do know that you can change the preferred application for a particular file type by right-clicking and then "open with other application" and choosing the default application. However I use .tex files extensively and installed Texworks (V0.4) to handle it. However when I click on .tex file in nautilus it always opens with gedit. I clicked on "open with other application", however that list did not show Texworks.
On searching through arch wiki and google, I found some posts saying if you can add the file type association in the file ~.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. However I do not know the syntax for .tex file type.
Is there a way to add Texworks to "open with other application list?  Or is there any other command line way?
Last edited by krnekhelesh (2011-05-14 15:55:13)

Answer 1

Your program should show up if you add a *.desktop file (e. g. to /usr/share/applications or ~.local/share/applications/). The important piece is the exec line, which has to look like this:
Exec=yourprogram %U
(further reading)
Last edited by Wey (2011-05-14 13:39:20)