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Hello! I would like to thank you for this wonderful work with LXQt. It's really an amazing and fast DE. I would like to make a few suggestions and one question

Suggestions:
- Put a small '+' icon over the file icon when dragging it with CTRL pressed, indicating that we're copying rather than moving;
- Inside lximage-qt create some keyboard shortcuts, like for example: Esc -> exit; h -> flip horizontally; r -> rotate clockwise, l -> rotate counter clockwise, space -> next image, backspace -> previous image, etc.
- inside lximage-qt allow user to hide toolbar through menu and keep this setting after closing lximage-qt;
- Create ALT+F4 shortcut on Desktop that calls leave session;
- After opening 'File Associations' dialog, put focus on the text box so users don't have to mouse click before searching;
- Create ALT+TAB+SHIFT to cycle backwards through opened apps;
- When changing pcmanfm-qt 'Default view mode', inside 'Preferences', change the current view instantly -- today we have to change a folder in order to see the changing;
- Inside pcmanfm-qt if you type the key equivalent to the mouse right click, the context menu appears aligned to the mouse cursor current position instead of where the file selection is;
- Inside pcmanfm-qt allow mouse side buttons only to go back or forward, never to pick a file. Today it's easy to mess with files/folders because of that;
- Inside pcmanfm-qt make 'Show hidden' settings to persist without having to edit settings.conf;
- Desktop file arrangement isn't very flexible, I think. It seems that it's always on 'auto arrange' once each new file is automatically sorted along with previous files. This is pretty annoying when you extract a file inside desktop and, expecting to see the extracted files in the last position, you get it between old files. Maybe an option to sort by last access...

Question:
How do I change file associations? 'File Associations' dialog doesn't seem to work so I'm struggled with mimetypes and the solution up to this moment is to manually edit /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list. But some things don't work, like for example: .m3u files don't open any app even though Qmmp is assigned to do that; magnet links doesn't call Transmission but opens a new tab on Opera (you can reproduce that by calling 'xdg-open magnet:'); 'open folder' inside Transmission opens Qmmp instead of pcmanfm-qt, and so on. Also, after running update-desktop-database and updating system caches, mimeinfo.cache inside /usr/share/applications doesn't respect what I put inside /usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list. I'm very confused with this LXQt section

Thanks!

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fulalas wrote:Question:
How do I change file associations?

right-click on the file in question => properties => open with => dropdown menu