mimeapps.list only takes a desktop file name, not a full path. Try text/plain=gedit.desktop;<div> J. Leclanche <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Paul Menzel <<a href="mailto:paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear <a href="http://freedesktop.org" target="_blank">freedesktop.org</a> folks, using Debian Sid/unstable, trying to configure how to open files, I am having some problems. $ xdg-mime --version xdg-mime 1.1.0 rc1 $ xdg-mime query default text/plain /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop $ echo text > test.txt $ xdg-mime query filetype test.txt text/plain $ grep 'text/plain' ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list text/plain=/usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop $ xdg-open test.txt # opens with `less` instead of Gedit So instead of opening it with the configured Gedit, it is opened with the pager `less`. Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </blockquote></div> </div>