I'm a math grad student, so it's unsurprising that my Gnome desktop
contains a bunch of Mathematica files (which end in .nb). I'd like to
have Gnome open up Mathematica when I double-click on a .nb file, but
Gnome thinks these are text files -- which they are, in the same sense
that an .html file is a text file.

I can't figure out how to do this. I don't mind messing with mailcap
files or whatever, but I'd like to do it "the Gnome way", which means
mime types, right?

I found this [1], which mentions a File Types and Programs preference
tool...which I don't seem to have.

I'm using Gnome 2.8 on FC 3, and don't have any administrative
privileges on the machine. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

  1. http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.8/ch11s05.html
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