Ubuntu – How to associate a file type within Wine with a native application

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For example, I want all avi files to be associated with mplayer in Wine

mplayer /home/user/myvideo.avi

Edit from Oli: I believe this this actually the inverse of what most people would assume from the original title. Unless I'm mistaken the user is using Total Commander in Wine and would like to launch a Linux-native player on the path. If I'm wrong, just rollback this edit.

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The Wine page has some detail on this.

First you need winepath to translate the path. This will make the script and give it permission to run:

mkdir -p ~/bin/
echo '#!/bin/sh' > ~/bin/run_linx_program
echo '$1 "`wine winepath -u "$2"`"' >> ~/bin/run_linx_program
chmod a+x ~/bin/run_linx_program

Then you'd save something like this to a file called association.reg:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi]
@="AVIfile"
"Content Type"="video/x-msvideo"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIfile\Shell\Open\command]
@="/bin/sh run_linx_program mplayer \"%1\""

Then run regedit association.reg to add the association to Wine's registry.

Note: this is adapted from the Wine page. I got the mime-type from within Linux (file --mime-type an_avi.avi). Wine may treat AVI files differently.

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Ubuntu – How to associate all file types within Wine with its corresponding native application

Years later, I've made a small utility that scans MIME database (both system and user) and register all known native mime-types in Windows registry.

It uses xdg-open to open a file if there is a default (native) application for that mime type, otherwise uses packagekit to search for a package that can handle that file (just like what Nautilus does). So my initial requirement of registering only extensions that have an installed, native application was not needed anymore. However, an early version of the script did filter only such types. The snippet that made it possible was:

perl -e '
    use strict; use warnings;
    use File::MimeInfo::Magic; use File::MimeInfo::Applications;
    while (my $line = <STDIN>) {
      chomp($line);
      my ($ext, $mime) = (split/\t/, $line);
      my ($def, @apps) = mime_applications_all($mime);
      print "$line\n" if ($def || @apps)
    }'

By default my script only registers native types that have no handler in windows registry, but it can also override such associations (so, for example, jpeg files are opened in native viewer instead of the default Gecko wine browser). It can also ignore some extensions even if they have no handler in windows.

It tries its best to be winemenubuilder-friendly, meaning all associations it creates is not published as native associations (or as x-wine-extension mimetypes) by winemenubuilder, which would be ugly and potentially cause loops. This is very tricky and not yet perfect, specially with mixed-case extensions (.C and .c for example)

That said, I hope this script is helful for everyone:

https://github.com/MestreLion/wine-tools/blob/master/wine-import-extensions

Improvements welcome!

Ubuntu – How to associate file extension (not file type) for a particular application

Rename the file you have as _anything_.task (where _anything_ is something suitably descriptive.)

First you need to create an XML file with the extension information in it. (If you wish, copy the text below into a new text file and save it as task.xml.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'>
<mime-type type="application/taskcouch">
<comment>TaskCoach File</comment>
<comment xml:lang="bg">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="cs">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="de">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="es">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="eu">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="hu">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="it">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ko">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="nb">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="nl">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="nn">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="sv">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="uk">Taskcoach</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="vi">Taskcoach</comment>
<glob pattern="*.task"/>
<alias type="application/taskcoach"/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

You now need to save or copy this new file into the directory

~/.local/share/mime/packages for a per-user file association or
/usr/share/mime/packages for a system-wide file association.

Once that is done, run

update-mime-database [MIME-DIRECTORY]

where [MIME-DIRECTORY] is the previously chosen directory minus the /packages suffix. (Use sudo for the system-wide association.)

Now, open your file manager and right-click on anything.task and select taskcoach as the default program with the open with option in the context menu.

Job done. All .task files will now open with taskcoach!

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