I follow this and this to change the default application. But it does not work.
I try to change to Text Editor as default application to open xml file but it does not change. By default it is firefox.
cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="" SUPPORT_URL="" BUG_REPORT_URL="" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
1 Answer
Problem:
sellerp18@sellerp18-MS-7788:~/Desktop/pm_new$ cat -n ~/.config/mimeapps.list | grep xml 7 text/xml=firefox.desktop 8 application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop 9 application/rss+xml=firefox.desktop 10 application/rdf+xml=firefox.desktop 82 image/svg+xml=eog.desktop 83 image/svg+xml-compressed=eog.desktop 140 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=libreoffice-writer.desktop 143 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=libreoffice-calc.desktop 149 application/xml=org.gnome.gedit.desktop 152 text/xml=firefox.desktop; 153 application/rss+xml=firefox.desktop; 154 application/rdf+xml=firefox.desktop; 223 image/svg+xml=eog.desktop; 224 image/svg+xml-compressed=eog.desktop; 272 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=libreoffice-writer.desktop; 275 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=libreoffice-calc.desktop; 283 application/xml=sublime-text.desktop;libreoffice-writer.desktop;
Solution:
I executed the following command to remove the default application from the file ~/.config/mimeapps.list
sed -i '/xml/d' ~/.config/mimeapps.list
After that, right-click on a .xml file, choose Properties, and click the "Open with" tab.
