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mrmonk

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Registered: 2023-10-01

Posts: 13

Everything thinks its a file manager?

For some reason, other apps are registering themselves as file managers, so upon opening paths its using the wrong application.

First VS Code, then Kitty, and now some URL launcher.

I can see from this command which  program is trying to claim it:

xdg-mime query default inode/directory

I tried this, but it doesn't fix it, still opens in whatever claims it (default unchanged)

xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory

How can I override, force, or fix this?

Last edited by mrmonk (2023-10-03 14:51:40)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,234

Re: Everything thinks its a file manager?

What tool are you using to launch things/open paths? That everything sets itself up as a handler for inode/directory is expected and wanted behaviour, but the default shouldn't change once explicitly overridden by the user with xdg-mime default, unless whatever you're using uses it's own database.

doppelhelix

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From: Germany

Registered: 2020-12-13

Posts: 1

Re: Everything thinks its a file manager?

the filename nautilus.desktop is deprecated and probably doesn't exist anymore. Try

xdg-mime default org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop inode/directory

instead