On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 20:50:04 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:

> But by  a "lucky guess" of rightclicking the bar at the top of the
> screen and seeing an "about" entry showed me that I'm using LXPanel
> 0.10.0
>
Thats what you should have said in the first place. Unlike windoze, there
are a LOT of different desktop window managers. They do not all work the
same or look the same though they do the same task.

However, the 'about' display is common to just about everything, so now
you know about it, use it to find out what program and version of it you
are asking about. Additionally, a web search for any program, once you
know its name, will often turn up a manual, so looking for it and having
a read before posting here will save everybody some time.

Yes, I know this is quite un-windows like, but UNIX and clones such as
Linux are generally well documented and the manuals are often indexed.

As an added hint, when writing scripts its useful to know about 'apropos'
and manpages. Both are command line tools. 'apropos' lists one line
descriptions of every tool whose manpage summary line contains your
search term. 'man name' shows a page describing how to use the program,
system feature or library routine whise name was retrieved by 'apropos'.

> If you have a simpler/more straight-forward method than to create an
> .xml file in /usr/share/mime/packages folder which specifies the
> mimetype, the files comment as wel as its icon (no path, no extension)
> and afterwards running "sudo update-mime-database $PWD" in the parent
> directory than I would still like to know.
>
I already said XFCE has a simple tool for doing that. RTFM for your
window manager, which I've never used, and you'll probably find it has
something similar, so use that.


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