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Robin Green
Robin Green

Reputation: 33103

How do I configure file associations for IntelliJ on Linux?

I'm trying to use the Play framework with IntelliJ community edition, which doesn't know what to do with YAML files. It asked me how to open them, and I chose to use the "associated application". But now whenever I double-click on a YAML file in IntelliJ, nothing happens.

The file associations for YAML files are set correctly in my desktop environment, KDE, and opening a YAML file from xdg-open works, but IntelliJ is not using xdg-open.

I suppose this could be related to the fact that I initially installed plain Ubuntu and then switched it to Kubuntu by installing the KDE packages. I'm using Oracle JDK 6.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1852

Answers (1)

Robin Green
Robin Green

Reputation: 33103

To edit them as plain text files in IDEA, I can go to Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S), search for File Types and choose "Files opened in associated applications", then remove .yml from the list. Then double-click a YAML file and choose to edit it as a text file. But this is not ideal - I'd like to be able to use associated external applications.

Upvotes: 3

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