Claus Reheis: >> Why don't you just tell us what DE you use! :) Chris Green: > Because it is totally irrelevant to the question, I use fvwm2 as my > window manager. It mightn't be, some file browsers might use their own internal preferences system. Instead of, or in addition to otherwise set options. I seem to recall that long ago, /etc/mailcap was one such place to set handlers for certain file types (based on MIME descriptions). You could try searching through config files for something that mentions a filetype you already know about (e.g. JPEGs or text/plain). Or running a trace while you try to open a file by double clicking on it in a file browser, to see what configuration files it uses. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.