On Mon 21 Nov 2011 22:36 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Bernardo Barros's message of 2011-11-20 00:06:05 +0100: > > text files opening automatically with wine is really a VERY annoying thing... > > This is pretty clearly a DE issue. Are you all using the same DE or is > this common behavior in all popular DEs? I rarely have any of those > issues since I usually call my programs by name and ROX uses manual > file association. Only firefox is sometimes hard to convince, but it > uses gconf or some other DE stuff underneath. It's somewhat nice to see > that DE users also have problems with that kind of stuff. Maybe this > stuff can be changed using regedit or however that great program to > change gconf settings is called. I'm sorry, somehow this ended up as > another DE flame instead of being helpful. Oh well... > > So how is this stuff controlled these days? Those funky desktop files? > gconf? dconf? Something else entirely? I'm thinking that this (the culprit) should be removed from all install scriptlets: update-desktop-database -q It's caused me headaches too. And I don't use any DE.