Adding an application to the "Open with other applications" dialog

Question

Today I installed Komodo and could not find it in the "Open with other applications" dialog box. The application works as intended, except for this.

Using ubuntu 11.10

Answer 1

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Here's how to do it:

Create a file in ~ / .local / share / applications named XXX.desktop e.g. flashplayer.desktop

File contents

 [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Exec=/home/executable-path %f Name=flashplayer Comment=Custom definition for flashplayer NoDisplay=true 

Note. %f , when the path to the executable is necessary for the application to appear in the "Open With" menu.

In nautilus

 - right click on file - open with other applications - show other applications - select the one created eg flashplayer 

Also update the / open -in properties and set it as the default