https://www.frangarcia.me/enSun, 21 May 2023 06:09:02 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.frangarcia.me/posts/setting-vscode-as-the-default-gnome-editor/Fran Garcia<p>Quick post. I had the need to change the default Gnome editor from gedit to VSCode. There isn't a straight-forward way to do this, so I found this quick way and wanted to make a note in the blog so I don't forget <code>;-)</code> .</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code literal-block">➜ xdg-mime query default text/plain gedit.desktop ➜ xdg-mime default code.desktop text/plain ➜ xdg-mime query default text/plain code.desktop </pre></div> <p>You can also check the list of existing applications by searching for <code>*.desktop</code> files installed in your system, eg:</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code literal-block">➜ find /usr/share/applications -name "*.desktop" </pre></div> <p>Happy hacking!</p>gnomevscodehttps://www.frangarcia.me/posts/setting-vscode-as-the-default-gnome-editor/Sun, 21 May 2023 06:00:39 GMT