Caja has lost most of its its file associations, wants to open most file types in Libre Office

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#1

Mate 16.04 This has happened on ARM and Intel systems, but not yet on my main Desktop, whcih is several upgrades behind since I don't want to reboot it yet. I do recall Libre Office being among the updates I've not installed.

Text, *.py, *.js, etc. all what to open in Libre Office. Opening with "use other application" and checking the "Use for all files of this type" doesn't change the association. Apparently *.h and *.cpp associations remain set for Pluma.

How to fix? Its really annoying, especially on the ARM systems where opening Libre Office is quite slow.

#2

Hi

Please read

but you will find as you have already tried a number of those suggestions by GUI that you might need to do it by terminal command....its a big list so do it when you have time

sudo update-alternatives --all

Note the link appears to show only one hypen but its two

#3

The easy but takes time method is to right click a file that you want to open using a certain way and specify that way under properties. Right click a .txt file and specify pluma for instance.

Good luck wally333.

#4

Apparently after a few more updates its somehow fixed itself on all systems. Happy, but concerned by weird crap like this :frowning: