writing ¨gtk¨ changes any text file in a Glade Project

**grossogrossum** · May 5th, 2012

Excuse my bad,bad,bad english, please. I hope you can understand me.

My problem is simple: if I write ¨gtk¨ (or sdfslkjsdifjgtksfsfkls) in a text file it automatically changes to a Glade Project in XML format, and I can't change to sh or simple text. My scripts don't work because this.
This happens after a clean installation using 12.04, with no previous configuration.

Somebody can help me?

Thank you.

**mc4man** · May 5th, 2012

I noticed that also during 12.04 dev, was wondering why some text files changed their icon, mimetype ect. Eventually traced to gtk
Never did file a bug on, probably because couldn't figure out what package to file against, guess I will now (will start against nautilus
Also If I remember not all files change, though most do..?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...us/+bug/995067

As far as your curent issue - not sure, here I just set the default from Firefox to gedit
application/x-glade=gedit.desktop

**grossogrossum** · May 5th, 2012

Thanks for your answer and for open a new bug.

I'm running Ubunt 12.04 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64

I was beginning to think that this happens just with me. I'm not alone at least

**vasa1** · May 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by mc4man

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...us/+bug/995067
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Thanks! Marked "it affects me too".

**mc4man** · May 5th, 2012

So this is caused by shared-mime-info, specifically if "gtk" is the 1st. 256 bytes then it's a glade file

So if needed you could pad the file so the 1st gtk is 257/8 in, wait to see if adjusted in a new package release or
it's likely you could adjust the value in
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml (lines 10804,10805
Then update the mime-database

**flemur13013** · May 6th, 2012

I had a text file containing "##" - a pretty common string! - and it became a "MATLAB script/function".

The culprit again is /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml:

<match value="##" type="string" offset="0"/>