Stopping VLC's file associations

I use Arch with xfce4 and nautilus for the file manager and desktop.
I use VLC occasionally with Tunapie (shoutcast radio/tv), for the rest of my media I use Kaffeine and XMMS.
My problem is that VLC keeps associating itself with most media file types, sometimes even stealing them back after I have associated them Kaffeine and XMMS. I'm sick of seeing "Open with VLC Player" in right click menus etc all the time.
I have removed the MimeType= line... from /usr/share/application/vlc.desktop and I have also removed
audio-vlc-default.sh
gnome-vlc-default.sh
video-vlc-default.sh
scripts found in /usr/share/vlc/utils
I then removed VLC with pacman -R vlc , (thus removing all associations and "Open With VLC" context), and then I re-installed my modified VLC package with the above changes.
Only to find that after a restart VLC is still doing the same stuff !
Can anyone suggest anything else I can try ?
Thanks
Tim

*check mine name for a file type
xdg-mime query filetype xxx.torrent
*the output shall be the following
application/x-bittorrent
*then change the default app for this mine type to other app
xdg-mime default deluge.desktop application/x-bittorrent
I hope this example had demonstrated how you can change the default application for each mime type.
Last edited by seenxu (2008-12-21 11:31:28)

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