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NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

strange pcmanfm problem [solved]

I'm using gnome and I recently switched my default filemanager to pcmanfm. Anyway, it seems that whenever I open a file (double click, etc) the appropriate app will not start. However, it works fine whenever the pcmanfm instance is started from a terminal.

For example, let's say that I double click directory.desktop on the desktop to bring up a directory with pcmanfm and I double click on foo.zip to view the archive with file-roller; file-roller will not start. However, if I enter "pcmanfm -t directory" in a terminal and double click on foo.zip, then file-roller starts.

Anyone have any ideas?

Last edited by NoOneImportant (2008-05-30 18:13:39)

Redroar

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 200

Re: strange pcmanfm problem [solved]

I'm not at my Arch computer right now, so I can't check...what's the entry for PCManFM in it's .desktop file? If it has some option, then perhaps just get rid of that option? I can't think of any plausibly likely reason for it to behave differently if it is the same exact command.

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NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

Re: strange pcmanfm problem [solved]

pcmanfm isn't necessarily one entry in the desktop file, it's in many

instead of just creating symlinks I used .desktop files instead (otherwise, they open with nautilus)

the only option is the name of the directory in the Exec field

[edit]nm, fixed it by using pcmanfm as the desktop instead of nautilus

Last edited by NoOneImportant (2008-05-30 18:13:27)