[arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting

[Matthew Monaco]

On 11/21/2011 05:49 PM, Mauro Santos wrote:
> On 21-11-2011 22:08, Bernardo Barros wrote:
>> In KDE I don't have this problem.
>>
>> It happens with xmonad and openbox.
>>
>> pcmanfm can configure that too, but automatic picks the last installed
>> package that handle this type of file, and wine is always the last
>> thing I install in the system..
>>
>
> To work around the wine annoyance I usually do (after running wine once
> after the update):
>
> find ~/.local/share/mime -name '*wine*' -exec rm {} \;
> rm ~/.local/share/applications/wine*.desktop
> update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
>
> And everything gets back in order to the way I had it configured before.
> The original idea isn't mine, I've seen someone suggest this on the
> forums or here, can't remember where or who suggested it though.
>

For wine you can have export WINEDLLOVERRIDES=winemenubuilder.exe=d in your 
profile to avoid the associations.