List of "open with" programs is broken

[simplex]

Hello,

when I right-click in Caja on a program and go to "open with " -> "other application", I get three times "winebrowser" as selectable, though I have not installed wine. I get three times "banshee" (which is installed) and three times vlc (which is also installed), twice without icon, once with mini-icon. How can I fix this and what does cause the error?

S.

[kurotsugi]

I forgot how I exactly fix it. IIRC you need to reset the mimeaps setting by delete /home/<usename>/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and /home/<username>/.local/share/mime then restart your system.

[simplex]

Thank you for your hint. I have just tried it, but it did not work. The list is still messy.

S.

[kurotsugi]

Caja might have it's own separated mimeaps list or there is another mimeaps list. do you see another file in the folders I've mentioned?

[jimallyn]

Usually instead of deleting things like that, I rename them. Just in case I need them back.

[kurotsugi]

renaming them won't work because system will read anything in that folder. you can copy it to your home directory if you want to keep that messed up list.

[simplex]

Caja might have it's own separated mimeaps list or there is another mimeaps list. do you see another file in the folders I've mentioned?

I have now deleted the folder ".local/share/applications/" completely. Now the list "open with" seems to be ok, with the exception of "banshee" showing up three times. The other folder is containing:

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$ ls .local/share/mime/
aliases        globs   image       packages    treemagic  XMLnamespaces
application    globs2  magic       subclasses  types
generic-icons  icons   mime.cache  text        version
  

[kurotsugi]

I never use banshee so that I'm not quite sure about this. it could be banshee's problem or something isn't right when your system create a new mimiaps list. when I messed up my mimeaps list I usually delete everything to make sure everything fixed.

[all41]

Have you installed more than one DE?
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopi ... =846#p2727

[simplex]

Have you installed more than one DE?

No. I have neither an XFCE, nor a Cinnamon package installed. On startup, I can only select a MATE session in the display manager.

I have just removed "banshee". It did not show up in the list anymore. Then I reinstalled it. Now again, there are three "banhee" entries.

There are also two entries for "gthumb" (with icon), and one for "AptUrl" and "LibreOffice XSLT" without an icon.

[Flemur]

The implementation of mime kinda sucks.
I tried to change the goofy names that show up to be the file extension instead; rather than "JPEG image" it should be "JPG". Gave up (actually changed a couple...but they changed back. IIRC, there's a separate file for each extension type, so you'd have to change N files for N types, but don't quote me on that. The official documentation is awful).

Here's a(n iffy?) script that removes duplicate entries:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=20798
Even if you don't run it, it might show where the ludicrous files are located.