--- a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf.in
+++ b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf.in
@@ -189,6 +189,10 @@
# identification ? This may be useful, but will usually cause the
# indexation of many bogus 'text' files
usesystemfilecommand = 1
+# Actual command to use as "file -i" workalike. xdg-mime works fine here.
+# The file path will be added as a last parameter to the command line. If
+# that's not what your preferred command would like, use an intermediary script
+# systemfilecommand = xdg-mime query filetype
# Should we index the file names of files with mime types we don't
# know? (we can otherwise just ignore them)