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kozaki

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Registered: 2005-06-13

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Firefox 'opens containing folder' with...

...Leafpad here, which of course does not always helps /-}

Arch Linux x86_64, Firefox, i3 window manager. Up to date.

For an user and two profiles, the Mozilla browser opens "containing folder" with Leafpad (on both profiles). While for the other users Thunar is used.
Opening directories with a file-manager is desired (slightly more than with leafpad /^o). I most surely overlooked something and would appreciate if someone would see where : }

Hunting the forum allowed me to try e.g.: FrozenFox's solution, but I couldn't make it work:
Editing /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache AND ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
user1 and user2 mimeapps.list's diff

- Using perl-file-mimeinfo
Assigning directories to Thunar as per the Wiki

 $ mimeopen -d [FOLDER] 

I made no change this way.

- Using xdg-open
I replaced busking-git with xdg-utils

$ xdg-mime query inode/directory
xdg-mime: unknown query type 'inode/directory

$ xdg-mime default Thunar.desktop inode/directory

$ xdg-mime query inode/directory
xdg-mime: unknown query type 'inode/directory'  !?

Even if 'inode/directory=Thunar.desktop' is added to ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
Note I get "unknown query type 'inode/directory" on both users' profiles.

Moved USER1's Firefox's 'mimeTypes.rdf' away, relaunched the browser but the 'opens containing folder with...' issue stands still.

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