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jones

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Went GNOME -> XFCE but Firefox save dialog uses GNOME Nautilus window

I recently migrated to XFCE.

Used GNOME beforehand. I uninstalled as much as possible of GNOME's files/settings and so forth starting with

sudo pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq)

and then looked for all the little things. So far I think I did a good job, but I just noticed I didn't catch everything. Whenever I want to save / download something in Firefox, it still shows Nautilus' location chooser window. If I click on any folder and start typing, that typical GNOME search starts happening as if I were using Nautilus.

Has anyone any idea what I could do here to get rid of this?
Can I post some additional info to clear things up?

Last edited by jones (2017-03-11 12:20:16)

ayekat

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Re: Went GNOME -> XFCE but Firefox save dialog uses GNOME Nautilus window

it still shows Nautilus' location chooser window

I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I can't imagine that Nautilus ships its own file chooser dialog. Or that Firefox would use that instead of GTK's file chooser dialog (which is normally does).

Are you positive you are not mistaking the GTK file chooser dialog for being "Nautilus" based on its looks (as it's both GTK)?

Last edited by ayekat (2017-03-11 12:29:24)

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jones

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Re: Went GNOME -> XFCE but Firefox save dialog uses GNOME Nautilus window

...well the thing is, unless Thunar "suddenly" has that type-ahead search feature of Nautilus (which actually made me quite GNOME), then.. I don't know, maybe I am mistaking it for Nautilus. Really, maybe I missed that. Could be possibe.

Last edited by jones (2017-03-11 12:36:21)

jones

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Re: Went GNOME -> XFCE but Firefox save dialog uses GNOME Nautilus window

Found that the solution is a non-solution. This is GTK's default behavior and has been for roughly 2 years now:
https://superuser.com/questions/1033414 … ch/1035760 -> https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … typeahead/ -> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748672

A little explanation on the side: I hadn't experienced this before as I have used GNOME recently and before that, Xubuntu 14.04 with arguably way older libraries and functionalities (or lack thereof).

Last edited by jones (2017-03-11 12:46:32)

Trilby

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Re: Went GNOME -> XFCE but Firefox save dialog uses GNOME Nautilus window

Reiterating ayekat's point: firefox uses a gtk file chooser dialog.  It does not use nautilus or thunar.  You seem to have expected firefox to now use thunar instead of nautilus, but it should not now use thunar, nor should it have previously been using nautilus.

There are likely notable differences between the gtk2 and gtk3 file chooser dialog windows.  You can use gtk2 on most of your system if you want (I believe xfce still uses gtk2 for it's tools including thunar), but the current versions of firefox use gtk3 including the gtk3 file chooser dialog window that you are talking about.

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jones

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Re: Went GNOME -> XFCE but Firefox save dialog uses GNOME Nautilus window

Yes, it certainly wasn't Nautilus when I had GNOME installed, this new feature kind of blended in with GNOME's own search then so I mistook it for Nautilus. Which speaks towards their concept, of course.

But about GTK2/3, I think I rather not pick that "fight", for the lack of a better word. Thanks though.