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Jan 31, 2024 at 23:36 comment added Van Jone Who would ever think in my case that text/html was a wrong direction of my troubleshooting because of another obscure type application/xhtml+xml interfering to type detection! Lo and behold: "xdg-mime query filetype q.html" gives "application/xhtml+xml" while "file --mime-type q.html" gives "q.html: text/html" WTF going on in this mime-world-tm?? I couldn't resolve this issue for few last years until hit on this comment above!
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Jul 28, 2022 at 19:43 comment added Harry You have to find out the mimetype of the help file with xdg-mime query filetype helpfile and then set the desired app with xdg-mime default app.desktop mimetype
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