Same here on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.3, trying to make SMPlayer
the default player for videos but it keeps switching back to vlc.
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Title:
Selecting default application in System Settings does not present
predictable results.
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Beginning with 13.04 I've noticed that Ubuntu has been a little
unpredictable with selecting the default application, particularly for
videos. I have Totem, VLC, and SMPlayer installed. I am not able to
change the default video application properly. Earlier I had these
findings:
Selected VLC to be default video player. Closed/reopene System
Settings - Details - Default Applications. Totem was still default. I
installed SMPlayer, and somehow was able to have success with setting
SMPlayer as default. Once done, I tried to change the default away
from SMPlayer. I changed it to Totem and closed/reopend System
Settings. SMPlayer was still default. Changed to VLC and
closed/reopend System Settings. SMPlayer was still default. I did an
apt-get remove --purge smplayer, and now Totem was the default. I
changed to VLC, closed/reopened, but Totem was still default.
I'd like to point out that if I right click on the file and go to
Properties - Open With tab, I can successfully select the new default
application for that file type without issue. (at one point I did have
to hit "reset", as even then it wasn't allowing me to change the
default, but since then everything has worked fine)
Bottom line, System Settings does not allow me to select the default
video application properly, as it doesn't seem to accurately change
the settings as an end user would expect.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 6 13:41:39 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-30 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu6.1
deja-dup26.0-0ubuntu1
gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.6bzr13.04.05-0ubuntu1
gnome-control-center-unity 1.2daily13.04.09-0ubuntu1
indicator-datetime 12.10.3daily13.03.26-0ubuntu1
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