From: Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:52:53 +0000 (+0100)
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+Problem
+=======
+Opening a zip file with ``xdg-open`` opens ``less`` of the file contents in ``mate-terminal``::
+
+    $ xdg-open file.zip
+
+This crashes mate-terminal; see http://p.cweiske.de/177
+
+
+Fix
+===
+File associations in ``xdg-open`` are loaded from the following locations:
+
+* ``~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list``
+* ``/usr/share/mate/applications/defaults.list``
+* ``/usr/share/applications/defaults.list``
+
+It found the last file only and found ``file-roller.desktop`` in it for the zip file::
+
+    application/zip=file-roller.desktop
+
+Then it looked for ``file-roller.desktop`` in multiple directories, including
+``~/.local/share/applications/file-roller.desktop``.
+Mate uses ``engrampa`` as archive management tool, so I symlinked that one::
+
+    $ cd .local/share/applications/
+    $ ln -s /usr/share/applications/engrampa.desktop file-roller.desktop
+
+This fixes all file-roller associations in ``defaults.list``, which are about 20.