How can I change the run associations?

Asked by SanskritFritz

When I click on a folder in the 'Computer' tab for example, Firefox opens with that folder. Clicking on a png file in 'Recently used' spawns Gimp with that file. How can I change those associations? I want to open folders with Roxfiler or png files with Feh.
I'm using standalone compiz, no DE installed.

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SanskritFritz (sanskritfritz+launchpad) said :
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Found the answer myself. A quick look into the source code revealed that gnomenu uses xdg-open for opening documents and urls.
So, to find out what mime type a document belongs to:
xdg-mime query filetype <filename>
To set the default application for opening the document:
xdg-mime default <myprogram>.desktop mime/type