diff --git a/.config/lf/scope b/.config/lf/scope
index 180c2947..881d66e9 100755
--- a/.config/lf/scope
+++ b/.config/lf/scope
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ ifub() {
 # an image appears in multiple places across the machine, it will not have to
 # be regenerated once seen.
 
-case "$(file --dereference --brief --mime-type -- "$1")" in
+case "$(xdg-mime query filetype "$1")" in
 	image/*) image "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$1" ;;
 	text/html) lynx -width="$4" -display_charset=utf-8 -dump "$1" ;;
 	text/troff) man ./ "$1" | col -b ;;