Using Ubuntu 12.04. I would like to choose kile as the default application for tex files, but I run into problems. I go through
"right click" -> properties -> open with -> show other applications
but kile is not in the list, so how can I choose kile?
Am I missing something obvious?
The answer given by Yusuf is correct but in my case it was incomplete. Since I had no Kile.desktop file in my /usr/share/applications (the .desktop association is hidden, as Cumulus007 points out), I had to create it and simply writing Exec=kile %F isn't enough. This is what I put inside the Kile.desktop file I created using Yusuf's instructions:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Kile
Comment=LaTeX front end
Exec=kile %f
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/kile.xpm
Type=Application
Categories=Office;Database
MimeType=text/x-bibtex
This finally allowed me to select Kile as the default application to open .tex files.
