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ahura

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Registered: 2016-02-20

Posts: 57

How to make programs use Nemo instead of Nautilus for save/open?

I'm running arch with Cinnamon. I dislike Nautilus because typing with a folder open will start a search for the typed text, rather than simply selecting the first file or folder starting with the typed text.
For this reason, I've installed Nemo and removed Nautilus. This works, in the sense that opening a folder and typing 'foo' will select the first file starting with 'foo' rather recursively searching subfolders for files starting with 'foo'. However, when I use the save or open dialogues in programs (like saving a PDF I have open in Chrome) the file manager, this behaviour changes and typing starts a recursive search. How do I change this?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: How to make programs use Nemo instead of Nautilus for save/open?

I don't believe that you can. The file-chooser that you are seeing is nothing to do with Nautilus, it's the standard GTK file-chooser used by all GTK applications.

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neymarsabin

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Registered: 2016-05-02

Posts: 12

Re: How to make programs use Nemo instead of Nautilus for save/open?

You can try this configuration editor...
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … nf-editor/

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: How to make programs use Nemo instead of Nautilus for save/open?

@neymarsabin

And how, exactly, does a configuration editor help with this?

@ahura

Given that file open/save dialogs aren't actually the same thing as the file browser, you don't have a lot of control over this -- it all depends on the builtin functionality of the software's graphical toolkit. That being said, I think what you really dislike, is gtk3.

There isn't anything to do about GTK3 applications, other than the vague hope that it can be built against gtk2 instead. But what you can do for Qt5 applications, is install an alternative Qt platformtheme and use it by exporting the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable. Specifically, try the qt5gtk2 platformtheme available in the AUR. (It should be available in qt5-styleplugins-git as well, but AFAIK they still haven't released an updated version...)

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