I'm running Fedora 20 with Gnome 3.12. Recently, I installed KDE via yum but decided to stick with Gnome. Ever since installing KDE, the xdg-open and gnome-open commands do not open files with the associated applications but will instead open Nautilus, selecting the file. Double-clicking the file in Nautilus will then open the associated application.
For example:
[user@host ~]$ xdg-mime query filetype test.pdf
application/pdf
[user@host ~]$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
evince.desktop
[user@host ~]$ xdg-open test.pdf
[user@host ~]$ gnome-open test.pdf
but both of the last two commands open Nautilus. On the other hand, kde-open does work, opening evince (and writing some kioclient stuff to stdout, don't know whether that's of any relevance):
[user@host ~]$ kde-open test.pdf
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12"
kioclient(27111) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses" refers to unknown mimetype "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12"
I'm aware of this thread, but using the mimeopen command did not solve my problem.
I didn't uninstall KDE so far because I'm not sure exactly how and I don't want to break stuff. However, any solution involving getting rid of KDE would be acceptable given some pointer as to how.
