On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:25:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 26Mar2007 11:27, List Mail <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > | Where does FC6 store file associations? > > Depends on the app. Mailcap is supposed to be the main place, but a lot of > GUIs doesn't use it. But fortunately... > > | I want to change the association of xv with jpg files which seems to > | be the default as my system tried to run xv when I attempted to view a > | jpg file from within mutt. > > Your app is mutt. It uses your .mailcap file. Mine says: > > image/jpeg; ah %s -end xv; gui > image/jpeg; noui iminfo %s; copiousoutput > image/pjpeg; ah %s -1 xv; gui > image/pjpeg; noui iminfo %s; copiousoutput > > Which runs "iminfo" (a small script that runs jhead etc) for text > display and "xv" inside my "ah" script for the attachment display. > > Make yourself a "~/.mailcap" file if you don't have one. Add this: > > image/jpeg; your-preferred-viewer %s; gui > image/jpeg; ls -ld %s; copiousoutput > Yes, for some reason I had missed it when I looked at first which is why I asked the question. I was also confused because my .mailcap was one from my Solaris installation and thus was a little awry for Linux. > and repeat with other content types as I have done if people send you > images in those types. > > The mutt-users list is a useful place to hang out, BTW. > I'm already there, have been for many years, because of the symptoms of what I was seeing I didn't realise it was probably more of a mutt issue than a Fedora one. -- Chris Green
