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Is the OP's install missing a bunch of MIME entries or something? I can't reproduce the examples given for xdg-mime on Fedora 34, e.g. $ xdg-mime query filet

Is the OP's install missing a bunch of MIME entries or something? I can't reproduce the examples given for xdg-mime on Fedora 34, e.g. $ xdg-mime query filetype file.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document $ xdg-mime query filetype file.xls application/vnd.ms-excel

vermaden 5y ago
Fedora 34 is as bleeding edge desktop as it can be. Maybe you have more recent xdg-utils version? I run 1.1.3 here.
- TD-Linux 5y ago
  I also have 1.1.3. Maybe what's missing is the libreoffice package? It seems like all these types are provided by /usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml on my system (which is read by update-mime-types). Arguably this is a common enough format that you shouldn't really need libreoffice installed to have it, though I would think any other office program would have it. I think /etc/mime.types serves as the ultimate fallback, though it doesn't have entries for libreoffice file extensions on my system.
  - vermaden 5y ago
    I will look into that, thanks.
  - yrro 5y ago
    xdg-utils does not use /etc/mime.types; that file is used by Apache httpd, CUPS, and various other programs though.
teddyfrozevelt 5y ago
Can't reproduce any of these on Arch either, mine is definitely checking the contents of the file as it saw an empty file titled "file.pdf" as "text/plain" and a .doc as "application/msword".