On Thursday 16 Jul 2009, Kussh Singh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org
wrote:
I don't know how to set it up as the default multimedia package, but you can certainly set it up as the default player for each individual file type. E.g. for making VLC the default OGG player,
Thanks, i have already done this (made the file associations with VLC) but it is other applications such as miro tv or search button etc
which
use the system defaults (where totem is set as the default multimedia player). One then has to open the relevant file in nautilus which is a roundabout way to do the same job.
Hmm, interesting. I was trying to find out if there's a system-wide default application viewer list somewhere, but can't find one, so it'll probably have to be done in each desktop environment individually.
For GTK/Gnome applications you could try editing /etc/gnome/defaults.list and see if that helps.
If anyone does figure out how to change media viewers globally in Linux I'd be interested in the answer too.
Regards,
-- Raju