Kubuntu file associations not changing

tetsujin1979

Pretty much exactly what it says on the subject line
I'm running kubuntu, just upgraded to Precise hoping it would resolve the issue I've been having with file associations
Whenever I change the default application for a filetype (e.g. geany for text files instead of kate) the change is not made permanent, either through file associations in the system settings or the right click -> open with -> Remember application association for this type of file

Any ideas on what I could do to resolve this?

PrzemoF

ls -l ~/.local/share/applications/

and post the result here.

tetsujin1979

me@mylaptop:~/$ ls -l ~/.local/share/applications/
total 4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 159 Dec 24 20:32 mimeapps.list

PrzemoF

OK, next step:

whoami

(post here)

That's how it should look like:

-rw-r--r-- 1 user_name users 1808 mar 23 22:28 mimeapps.list

So let's say your user name is "steven" (the result of "whoami"):

sudo chown steven:users path-to-file-mimeapps.list-here

will fix the owner:group problem and:

chmod 644 path-to-file-mimeapps.list-here

should fix the permissions.

If you don't understand what's going on here google or ask! The first result you posted suggest that someone run something that shouldn't ever be executed like setting permissions 777 to all files.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_permissions

tetsujin1979

ok, done

me@mylaptop:~/$ whoami
me

PrzemoF

OK, replace"steven" with "me"

tetsujin1979

did all that and changed the permissions successfully, but the file associations are still not being persisted.
I get an "updating system configuration" message for about a second and then try opening with the new default application and it's back to the previous one

if it makes an difference, when I try to remove an application from the list, it tells me I am not authorized to remove the service

PrzemoF

OK, what about:

ls -lR ~/.local/share

I'm trying to get an idea what ownership/permission you have for files in your home dir.

You can try something like that:

sudo chown -R me:users /home/me/

It should change the owner your home directory and all sub-directories and files to you.


http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown

tetsujin1979

PrzemoF wrote: »

OK, what about:

ls -lR ~/.local/share

I'm trying to get an idea what ownership/permission you have for files in your home dir.

You can try something like that:

sudo chown -R me:users /home/me/

It should change the owner your home directory and all sub-directories and files to you.


http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown

the chown command did the job, thanks so much