Re: Changing default file type in Centos 6

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On 02/28/2016 04:08 PM, Yamaban wrote:
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:47, H <agents@...> wrote:

On 02/27/2016 07:56 PM, Yamaban wrote:
 On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:38, H <agents@...> wrote:

> It turns out my markdown files - extension .md - are of the "Genesis ROM" > file type in Centos 6. Googling did not turn up any obvious places to > change this in Gnome - neither in my local directory or in /etc/gnome. > > Where would I be able to change this default file type for files with the > extension .md? I have already changed the default application to geany > (with the markdown extension.)
> >  Thank you.

 have a look at these:
 /etc/mime.types (file)
 /usr/share/mime/ (dirs)
 /usr/share/mimelnk/ (dirs)
 /usr/share/mime-info (dir)

 grep for '\.md' and/or for 'Genesis ROM' in there.

Just adding your own line to /etc/mime.types may look nice, but is possibly not what you want, more likely a new entry in a file or directory under
 ~/.local/share/mime/

 Have a nice weekend
  - Yamaban.

Files in ~/.local/share/mime also seem to have been automatically generated by update-mime-database and should not be edited. Should I still create a new file for the ".md" extension and add it to this directory?

Huh? The "orignal" text/x-markdown file should already exist globally:

/usr/share/mime/text/x-markdown.xml

also generated from tis file:
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml

but, feel free to do so:
[code]
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mime/text
cp -t ~/.local/share/mime/text /usr/share/mime/text/x-markdown.xml [/code]

or, create is yourself, short version content follows
(view mail as source or plain text if not shown)
[code]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mime-type xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"; type="text/x-markdown">
  <comment>Markdown document</comment>
  <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
  <glob pattern="*.md"/>
  <glob pattern="*.mkd"/>
  <glob pattern="*.markdown"/>
</mime-type>
[/code]
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No, I don't have x-markdown.xml, nor is markdown mentioned in freedesktop.org.xml.

I did follow your suggestion, first created the ~/.local/share/mime/text directory and then copied the code you listed into the file x-markdown.xml into that same directory.

Unfortunately the ".md" files still show as "plain text document" - is there something else I should do?

In the process I also lost the file type for pdf-documents which now show as file type "unknown"...

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