Situatie
As a beginner, you may need to know how to change any default application in Ubuntu and this is what I am going to show you in this tutorial.
There are basically two ways you can change the default applications in Ubuntu:
- via system settings (valid for changing the default web browser, email client, calendar, music application, video player and image viewer)
- via right-click menu (valid for applications other than the above mentioned ones)
1. Change default applications in Ubuntu from System Settings
Simply head to the System Settings:
In the System Settings, click on the Details option:
Now, click on the “Default Applications” option as highlighted in the screenshot below:
As you can see, there are only a few kinds of default applications that can be changed here. You can change the default applications for web browsers, email clients, calendar apps, music, videos and photo here. What about other kinds of applications?
2. Change default applications in Ubuntu from right-click menu
Let’s say you have a markdown file (.md) which opens in Gedit text editor by default. But you want to use some other applications to open markdown files. Here’s what you need to do.
Right click on the file and then select Open with Other Application:
If you don’t see your choice of application, click on the View All Applications:
Locate the desire application and select it:
- This will open the file in your chosen application.
- The thing here is that the file manager automatically recognizes your choice and the next time you double click on the file to open it, it will open it with the application you last chose.
Keep in mind that this behavior is not applicable to web browser, music player, video player, email client, calendar and photo viewer. For that you need to use the first method.
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