On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:03:35PM +0930, Tim wrote: > 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). > ... but a "file browser" has nothing to do with it, I'm not using one to look at the file. I did look in my 'local' mailcap, I'd forgotten about /etc/mailcap (thanks) but there's very little in there. > 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. > Yes, I tried that, looking for the application it *is* calling but found nothing useful. Maybe it's something that mutt is doing by default but I thought mutt was pretty standards-aware and would use normal mechanisms. -- Chris Green
