KDE File Association

[jafar]

OK, here's a noobie for you.
Somehow I changed the file association for desktop links to open in mplayer in terminal, which means everytime I click on the home icon, I get mplayer running then close down. And the same also with the CD icons on the desktop. I went into File Association in Control Center, and change x-desktop Application Preference Order to none, still no go. Help me, I am going nuts here :|

[crackers]

Okay, you'll need to get to a console or a terminal. From the sound of it, the console might be your best bet (CTRL+ALT+F1). Login as your regular user (the one with the problem) and cd to .kde/share/mimelnk - look in the audio directory and see what's in there. It should look like this:

[crackers@xxxx mimelnk]$ ls -l audio
total 48
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 181 Dec  9  2003 aiff.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 176 Dec  9  2003 basic.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 198 Dec  9  2003 vnd.rn-realaudio.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 173 Dec  9  2003 wav.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 185 Dec  9  2003 x-aiff.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 191 Dec  9  2003 x-pn-aiff.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 180 Dec  9  2003 x-pn-au.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 201 Dec  9  2003 x-pn-realaudio.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 190 Jun 27  2004 x-pn-realaudio-plugin.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 183 Dec  9  2003 x-pn-wav.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 199 Dec  9  2003 x-pn-windows-acm.kdelnk
-rw-r--r--  1 crackers users 177 Dec  9  2003 x-wav.kdelnk

I obviously have a pretty old setup... er, anyway, you're looking for a file that doesn't look like it belongs - either in this directory or the video directory. If it's not obvious, post the contents of those two directories.

[jafar]

Thanks, I have solved it anyway.
It seems when I was browsing through my directories, I accidentally associated the directory (/devices) itself with mplayer, not the file. Simply by removing mplayer from the list of programs associated fixed it.