gvfs-mime
manages MIME type associations in GNOME
TLDR
SYNOPSIS
gvfs-mime [options] mimetype [handler]
DESCRIPTION
gvfs-mime manages MIME type associations in GNOME. It queries and sets default applications for opening different file types.The tool modifies the user's MIME database to associate applications with content types. Changes affect how files are opened in GNOME.
PARAMETERS
MIMETYPE
MIME type to query or set.HANDLER
Desktop file for handler.--query
Query default handler.--set
Set default handler.--help
Display help information.
CAVEATS
Part of the gvfs-bin command-line tools, deprecated in gvfs 1.31 (2016) and removed entirely in gvfs 1.38 (2018) in favor of the unified gio command (`gio mime`). Modern distributions no longer ship gvfs-mime. GNOME specific; uses .desktop file IDs as handlers.
HISTORY
gvfs-mime was part of GVFS's original gvfs-bin utilities, introduced for GNOME alongside GVFS in 2008 (GNOME 2.22). It has since been superseded by gio mime.
SEE ALSO
gio(1), xdg-mime(1), update-mime-database(1)
