Solved The "Places" menu in Gnome brings up konqueror.

I want to change it back so that it opens nautilus. How would I go about doing that?
Last edited by patrickaupperle (2009-03-25 01:23:34)

Thanks for the attempt. I actually found the answer in the wiki. I do not know how it evaded me the first time I looked. Thanks anyway.
For those of you who find this thread looking for the answer:
From the Wiki:
Default applications
You may want to configure system-wide default applications and file associations. This is extremely useful when you have some KDE applications installed, but still prefer a GNOME ones to be launched by default.
To do that you can install gnome-defaults-list from AUR. It will place your configuration file at /etc/gnome/defaults.list.
If you want to do everything manually, create /usr/share/applications/defaults.list with the following format:
[Default Applications]
application/pdf=evince.desktop
image/jpeg=eog.desktop

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