Preferred Apps
File type is a form of app association, but
there are still apps for default tasks such as browsing web. In this case,
these associations help the operating system know what to do when facing a link
in other apps, such as whether the link is embedded in Word document or in
email. Similar forms of control help Ubuntu know what to do when you click on
email address, have got plenty of multimedia files to play, or click on a file
that should run in Terminal window. By changing these defaults, you can make
sure that the system always opens your preferred apps.
These settings just change app in order for
it to open from other app (for example, clicking a link in email will open the
browser), and it do not skip default app for a particular file type. For
instant, you can open HTML file in Firefox, but the default browser setting is
Chromium.
These changes are executed by System
Settings app, which is available from Ubuntu search menu. Open Preferred
Applications, which is listed below Personal. It gives you a dialog box with
tabs for different types of app. Below each tab, select an app to match the
task by using the drop-down menu. For internet, you can set default Web Browser
and Mail Reader. For Multimedia, you can select Multimedia Player (Banshee will
be the default). For System, you can select Terminal Emulator (GNOME Terminal
should be the default).
Inserted save format
Tell
Ubuntu open file with an app forever or once
There is another area in which Ubuntu has
default apps – that is, when you insert save format, such as CD, DVD or USB
drives, into the computer. Like Windows, Ubuntu can detect what are saved in
save format and perform a task such as open photo slideshow.
To access these settings, you will need to
click the Home Folder from Launcher, and then select Preferences from the Edit
menu. Click on the Media tab, and you will see a list of popular save formats,
including CD audio và DVD video. There are three options for files found in the
save format: music, photo, and software. Just use drop-down menus to choose the
app you want to assoctiate with the save format that has just been inserted.
There is also an option that change
dedaults options for less popular save formats such as Blu-ray disc and while
optical disc. Use the Type menu to select the save format, and use the Action
menu to select what you want to do such as running a selected app or browsing
file.
You can select ‘Never prompt or start
programs on media insertion’ if you want Linux to leave you alone.
Apps set-up
When you get more familiar with Linux, and
see that you have already had preferred apps, you can use these instructions to
make sure that your file is always open in selected program, instead of the
default set up by Ubuntu.
To have a perfect association, maybe you
have to change all three settings described here, but when you to that, you
will see the computer work exactly in the way you want. Do not worry if a
default is changed by new app you installed because we said that it was easy to
re-change.
