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#1 2014-01-25 06:55:16

henrythemouse
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Registered: 2014-01-18
Posts: 8

Error with enlightenment 18.2-1 efm file manager

New enlightenment 18 setup for new user.

Navigate to Desktop dir, you will see three files: Home, Root, and Temp.

None of these will work when clicked on because the path "/home/username/Desktop" is prepended to the file url (these are .desktop files).
I get the same behavior when I click on symlinks to dirs. If I symlink /tmp to /homr/username/roottmp and navigate to Home, click on roottmp, "/home/username/" is prepended to "roothome".

Other file managers are working fine, I use MC and Sunflower.

If anyone else is having this problem I'd like to here from you, especially if you have any idea what is happening.

TIA

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UPDATE:

I found a workaround for this issue, not a fix.  EFM doesn't like directory links that are not relative links. It doesn't seem to mind file links that are not relative though. I changed my symlinks to relative symlinks by using the command "ln -sr" instead of "ln -s". Then EFM has no problem with the links. I also had to modify the .desktop link files so that they used relative paths in the url= line. Of course, MC doesn't do that when it creates symlinks, so it's strickly a terminology thing. I don't use EFM much really, mostly for a quick overview of images or videos. It works well for that use. Unfortunately, it has other issues too, one of which is it doesn't update the files list after a move or paste.

Last edited by henrythemouse (2014-01-27 03:40:12)

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