I'm on Xubuntu 12.04 and using Awesome WM. In Awesome session, If I double click a plain text file(txt, asc, rb, py etc.) in Thunar, it opens with Abi Word. But I want it to open with a text editor not a word processor. In Xubuntu/Xfce session, it does open with text editor(Leafpad). How could I fix it without setting it for various text files?
Ubuntu – Default application to open text file in Thunar under Awesome WM
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Ensure that you have libreoffice-gtk installed, if not it will not be integrated correctly. LibreOffice is a vcl application (not sure if any other applications use that toolkit), and needs packages like that for integration with GTK+ and Qt.
XFCE has the ability to minimize the window when double-clicking the window title bar. I know this is not quite the same as double-clicking the frame, but its very simple without needing further packages or workarounds.
Use Settings --> Window Manager and change the double-click action for the title-bar as shown.
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If you're using
Xfce 4.10, then you canSettings > MIME Type Editor, then settext/plainto whatever text editor you want. I'm not sure if this will take care of all possible file extensions associated with plain text files, but my hunch is that it should help.