On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:16 -0500, Scott wrote: > I am helping my father to install mplayer and I am wondering how does > he go about changing it so that mplayer is his default player and if > mplayer won't play it then it goes back to totem? I don't think you can configure fall-backs. You can right-click on particular file types, open the properties, and set the default "open-with" application for that type of file. Other similar files will be opened with that application, by default. So you can set different files to be opened be opened by different applications. Even then, that's just the default. You can still right-click files and open them with something else. Some will have a list of options (which can be added to with the same properties box as above), or you can choose something else, manually, each time. Those are Gnome instructions, KDE probably works similarly, but I use it to rarely to remember. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
