My Own file format

[rulk88]

I'm a game developer and I have custom file format for in-game animation, also i have editor for it. Is there a way to assosiate this file format with the editor?

[simeon87]

Right-click the file > Properties > Open With. Then add the editor here.

[rulk88]

Is there a way to do it not using GUI? From a program or command line?

[nvteighen]

Hmm... I guess there has to be a way to set this through some script executed while installing a .deb package... or your target DE's API should have some way to do it?

[Ferrat]

Is there a way to do it not using GUI? From a program or command line?


cd /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

echo ‘:MyFileExtentionName:E::MyFileExtention::/the/path/to/theprogram/Iwantto/registeritWith:’ > register



You have to sudo it possibly.

So ex. if you want text files to register with vim you would do


echo ":text:E::txt::/bin/vi:" > register