Associations are not saved

[leberknecht]

Hi,

I used selectdefaultapplication in the past and it worked fine, but apparently something happened and not it doesnt seem to save my changes anymore. When i click "Set as default application for this types" nothing happens (i think its normal that there is no feedback?), but when i select another application on the left and then switch back to the application where i changed the types, then the types are like before again.

Any ideas how i can find the root cause for this problem? I noticed when i wanted to change the *.html type to be opened with firefox instead of chrome, but it seems to affect everything.

[leberknecht]

Ah sorry, forgot:

# uname -a
Linux leberle-desktop 5.15.25-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 23 14:44:03 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

running Plasma 5.24.2 on X11, Qt 5.15.2

[magnus-ISU]

No idea. Its not been updated for a while, since before I forked it.

Try using my fork instead? https://github.com/magnus-ISU/selectdefaultapplication/releases/tag/2.0

The application works by modifying ~/.config/mimeapps.list so maybe try manually seeing if that is being modified?

[magnus-ISU]

Wait on Manjaro, you probably are using my fork as I took over the AUR package. Can you reinstall from the AUR and confirm that you are running the up to date version? It will have 3 panels, not 2.

I just tried to make sure I didn't break anything, and it did indeed work for me. I also added a confirmation when you try to overwrite rules other apps have created, and the UI will show when rules get updated. So I'm 99% sure you aren't running my version (there is no reason the old one would stop working though, idk why this might be happening).

[artur15lima]

Me

Im using selectdefaultapplication-git no forks or anything.
My specs:

CPU: quad core Intel Core i5-8265U (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max:
400/400/3900 MHz Kernel: 6.13.2-arch1-1 x86_64 Up: 31m Mem: 1.95/15.51
GiB (12.6%) Storage: 938.78 GiB (4.7% used)

Comment/Answer

Try to check if the changes are applied on the system either way. My selectdefaultapp also behaves exactly the same as yours but i noticed that when i went to check all the changes were applied, the app just didnt register them. A double tap also seems to do the trick.

Open txt files and see if the it opens with the app that you had set for (opening text documents) on selectdefaultapp. If so, the changes were applied but didnt show as such.