How To Make WPS Office The Default Application In Lubuntu?

[fredsua]

Hello everyone;

I'm a long time Ubuntu user and I recently installed Lubuntu on my netbook to make it run faster. I Lubuntu has made my netbook run so much better, I love it.

I recently installed WPS Office (latest ver. 18p1) in Lubuntu and now I can't figure out how to make WPS the default application to open .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx file extensions. When I right click a word document and select Open With..., WPS doesn't show up as one of the options to choose from. Please help!

Thank you.

[Rex Bouwense]

How did you install WPS Office? Can you start it from the main menu?
There is a new (well relatively new) feature in Lubuntu. Go to main menu->Preferences->Default applications for Lxsession. Choose Launching applications and scroll down to Document. Choose your default application.

[drooly]

additionally, whenever you see one of those documents in your file manager, right click them => Properties => Open with...
that should stick.
if it doesn't, let us know.

[fredsua]

How did you install WPS Office? Can you start it from the main menu?
There is a new (well relatively new) feature in Lubuntu. Go to main menu->Preferences->Default applications for Lxsession. Choose Launching applications and scroll down to Document. Choose your default application.

I installed WPS Office by downloading the .deb document and letting GDebi Package Installer do the rest.
I did the main menu as suggested and was able to set the Document and Spreadsheet to WPS accordingliy. However when I open a document it doesn't recognize the program association. Weird...

additionally, whenever you see one of those documents in your file manager, right click them => Properties => Open with...
that should stick.
if it doesn't, let us know.

I did this also, but WPS does not appear as one of the options.

[drooly]

do you have a .desktop file for wps office in /usr/share/applications?
please post its contents.

[fredsua]

Yes, I do.

wps-office-wps.desktop for writer

wps-office-et.desktop for spreadsheet

[fredsua]

Ok, so I managed to correct the file association with WPS as the default application for each one. Now, my next problem is that when I save a file in doc, docx, xls, ppt, etc., the OS seems to think they are Zip Archive files. How can I get this corrected?

[drooly]

they are zip archives.

what does the os do to them?
can you still save them?
can you open them with wps?
i'm not sure i understand.

but, just like you did before, it should be possible to get an application associated with them via filename extension.