R.Wieser  wrote:
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> *and yes, I've already spend a couple of days looking for it.
>
>> This is usenet,
>
> Exactly.  I don't think I'm the first or only one who bumped into it, and
> hoped that I would reach someone would already have gone thru it  and thus
> could give me a pointer or two.

Personally I think I bumped into something similar earlier this year
while setting up a system for someone else. However I can't really
remember enough to be helpful. I think the .config/mimeapps.list file
was the key, as already mentioned, however with AntiX (based on
Debian) I found that changing this had no effect. After spending far
too long searching, I found at least one other file in another
directory containing entries that were read along with those in
mimeapps.list, and that was where the association that I wanted to
change was being specified (with precedence over my other setting I
guess).

I can't remember the location of the other file, and don't have quick
access to an AntiX installation to check. It may have been called
mimeapps.list just in another directory, in which case you could use
"find" to locate all files with that name.

For my own use, pcmanfm (or whatever it's called) would have been
removed on this basis of being hard to configure if not for others
reasons besides. I would have installed one of the commander-style
file managers that I use myself, and which have their own independent
systems for setting file associations which don't end up spread
over multiple hidden, undocumented, files, but are clearly
documented and usually edited within a simple configuration
interface.

Unfortunately my personal favourites are no longer being developed,
so you won't find a Raspbian package for them. Except for Filerunner
which I've played around with a bit, it's written in TCL/TK so you
shouldn't need to compile anything to get it running even though
there's probably not a package for it. It doesn't have right-click
"open with" menus for files though, just single program associations
and other actions triggered by configurable buttons.

The point that I'm making though is that you don't need to battle
with a file manager that is difficult to use/configure the way you
want it. The geat thing about Linux is that there are lots of other
options for file managers, as well as window managers,
taskbars/menus, and lots more. The only trouble is finding ones that
suit you personally. So you've established one file manager that you
don't like, go out and find one that you do!

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