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Sudo mv sktop /usr/share/applicationsįor the newly added ‘desktop entry’ to be added into the ‘Default Applications’ utility, we have to update the ‘desktop entry cache’. Now, assuming the file is in your ‘Home’ folder, enter the below command to move it into the ‘/usr/share/applications’ folder. When you are done, make sure to save the changes and then close the editor. You can enter any name here (it does not have to be the name of the program), and it will be used as the entry name listed on the ‘Default Applications’ (the tool that lets us change the default applications) menu.Ģ: Under the ‘ Exec‘ field, enter the command of the program, do not change the ‘ %U’ argument.įor example, if I wanted to execute ‘mplayer’, then I’ll replace the ‘enter-the-exact-name-here’ text field with ‘mplayer’ and the output will look like below.ģ: If you want an icon to be displaced on the menu entry, then simply enter its path under the ‘ Icon‘ field, or else, leave it blank. Now open ‘Gedit’ text editor and open the extracted file (‘sktop’) using it.ġ: Give a name under the ‘ Name‘ field.

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So, first of all, download the configuration file from here (it is compressed, once the download completes, make sure to extract the file into your ‘Home’ folder). In other words, you can use this file to set a desired application as the default one for opening all the audio/video files, easily. And by using its existing desktop entry file, called ‘sktop’ (stored in ‘/usr/share/applications’), I have created a custom desktop entry file, that can be used to add any media player into the default application list for Audio and Video formats. Now as you know, the default media player in Ubuntu is called ‘Totem”. In Unity (including Gnome & KDE), applications that have desktop or menu entries, rely on a configuration file, as specified by ‘freedesktop’, for achieving that. In this article, I’m concentrating on adding a new program for handling audio/video categories only. Nevertheless, by using a simple trick, one can easily add ‘mplayer’, or any other player that does not add itself into this list.

This is understandable, as it is a command-line based one and most users won’t be using as the default media player. However, this does not always work.įor example, when installing, ‘mplayer’ (the command-line based one) does not add itself to this list. Now most programs, while installing, if they are related to one of those available categories, they automatically add themselves, and thus, we can easily make them the default application for opening those file types. For example, by using this tool, one can change the default Web browser, Text editor, Image viewer, Audio player, Video player etc. ‘Unity’ desktop comes with a utility that lets us set the default application for opening certain file types.