Set application as default

[meets2tarun]

Few applications need to get default as

• vlc as default player
• chromium as default browser

[abishekvashok]

Why don't we ask the user?

[meets2tarun]

#67

[tabesin]

What does /usr/bin/x-www-browser point to?

Please post:
readlink -f /usr/bin/x-www-browser
and
readlink /usr/bin/x-www-browser

Usually Debian/buntu users configure it via:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

That is, here you would configure it via
--set

With (as root)
update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
you can see how it is currently set.

The Lubuntuniverse makes use of the x-www-browser link.

[tabesin]

On making VLC default what does
cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list | grep video
output?

[tabesin]

For setting:
xdg-mime default application mimetype(s)
For querying:
xdg-mime query default mimetype(s)

[tabesin]

merges with #111