Change default applications easily in GNOME

"Like some other desktop environments, GNOME comes with a set of pre-configured defaults to open files and launch applications, depending on the type of file. For instance, URLs will open by default in a Web browser, emails will open in a mail client, text files will open with a text editor. Depending on the applications installed and what distribution you are using, these defaults may vary and, more importantly, they may not be the defaults that you want.

"Configuring default applications and associations in GNOME is easy. To change the global default application, go to System | Preferences | Preferred Applications. Here, you can set your preferred default browser, mail reader, multimedia player, various accessibility programs, and the default terminal application that you want to use. So if you prefer Thunderbird to the GNOME default of Evolution, you would make the change here."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• How to Set your Ubuntu Wallpaper as the bootsplash and login screen background(Jan 05, 2010)
• Theming GNOME(Dec 31, 2009)
• Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop)(Dec 24, 2009)
• Maintain your GNOME registry with gconf-editor(Dec 23, 2009)
• GNOME Panel tips and tricks(Dec 21, 2009)
• Proposed Photo managers for Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx (Dec 21, 2009)
• GNOME, GNU, and a long memory(Dec 17, 2009)