Setting feh as default image viewer

I found eog to be too slow at rendering pictures for my purpose. I wanted to make feh (a commandline based image viewer) my default.

1. Try and figure out how to change default.

   • right click image
   • properties
   • open with

   but I couldn't find feh listed as an option

2. Edit feh's .desktop file

   • open /usr/share/applications/feh.desktop
   • change a bunch of stuff

   still cannot get feh to show up.

3. Change the mime type default manually

   • edit ".local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" to map all image opens to feh.

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     < image/bmp=gpicview.desktop
     < image/gif=gpicview.desktop
     < image/jpeg=gpicview.desktop
     < image/jpg=gpicview.desktop
     < image/png=gpicview.desktop
     < image/tiff=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-bmp=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-pcx=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-tga=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-portable-pixmap=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-portable-bitmap=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-targa=gpicview.desktop
     < image/x-portable-greymap=gpicview.desktop
     < application/pcx=gpicview.desktop
     < image/svg+xml=gpicview.desktop
     < image/svg-xml=gpicview.desktop
     ---
     > image/bmp=feh.desktop
     > image/gif=feh.desktop
     > image/jpeg=feh.desktop
     > image/jpg=feh.desktop
     > image/png=feh.desktop
     > image/tiff=feh.desktop
     > image/x-bmp=feh.desktop
     > image/x-pcx=feh.desktop
     > image/x-tga=feh.desktop
     > image/x-portable-pixmap=feh.desktop
     > image/x-portable-bitmap=feh.desktop
     > image/x-targa=feh.desktop
     > image/x-portable-greymap=feh.desktop
     > application/pcx=feh.desktop
     > image/svg+xml=feh.desktop
     > image/svg-xml=feh.desktop
     

4. Change the default feh command by copying /usr/share/applications/feh.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications

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   < Exec=feh
   ---
   > Exec=feh -Z %U