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Flixerious

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Registered: 2024-08-14

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[SOLVED] Thunar opens another version of kitty for context actions.

System: Arch + Hyprland
Problem:
I've got two common problems with thunar after clean installing:
1. Open Terminal here command didn't work
2. Open with *text-editor* didn't work either with "Unable to find terminal"

I solved first one with creating ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and adding:
"TerminalEmulator=kitty"
As for the second one editing the .desktop files in a such way helped (e.g. nvim):

Exec=nvim %F
Terminal=true

does not works

Exec=kitty -e nvim %F
Terminal=false

works

But there is still an issue: underlying terminals opened by "open with" don't match set-up configuration. (But "open terminal here" command works as expected). Firstly, i thought that it still uses some xfce4 emutor for this, but it's definitely kitty, but the title is differs a bit   in hyprctl

Window 5f50eafd3010 -> micro:
	mapped: 1
	hidden: 0
	at: 22,83
	size: 527,481
	workspace: 1 (1)
	floating: 0
	pseudo: 0
	monitor: 0
	class: kitty
	title: micro
	initialClass: kitty
	initialTitle: kitty
	pid: 1419
	xwayland: 0
	pinned: 0
	fullscreen: 0
	fullscreenClient: 0
	grouped: 0
	tags: 
	swallowing: 0
	focusHistoryID: 2

Window 5f50eafef730 -> micro micro.desktop:
	mapped: 1
	hidden: 0
	at: 22,578
	size: 527,480
	workspace: 1 (1)
	floating: 0
	pseudo: 0
	monitor: 0
	class: kitty
	title: micro micro.desktop
	initialClass: kitty
	initialTitle: kitty
	pid: 1466
	xwayland: 0
	pinned: 0
	fullscreen: 0
	fullscreenClient: 0
	grouped: 0
	tags: 
	swallowing: 0
	focusHistoryID: 3

Window 5f50eb011720 -> Post new topic / Arch Linux Forums — Mozilla Firefox:
	mapped: 1
	hidden: 0
	at: 22,83
	size: 1876,975
	workspace: 2 (2)
	floating: 0
	pseudo: 0
	monitor: 0
	class: firefox
	title: Post new topic / Arch Linux Forums — Mozilla Firefox
	initialClass: firefox
	initialTitle: Mozilla Firefox
	pid: 25795
	xwayland: 0
	pinned: 0
	fullscreen: 0
	fullscreenClient: 0
	grouped: 0
	tags: 
	swallowing: 0
	focusHistoryID: 1

Window 5f50eaa77960 -> hyprctl clients >> clients.txt:
	mapped: 1
	hidden: 0
	at: 563,83
	size: 1335,975
	workspace: 1 (1)
	floating: 0
	pseudo: 0
	monitor: 0
	class: kitty
	title: hyprctl clients >> clients.txt
	initialClass: kitty
	initialTitle: kitty
	pid: 26280
	xwayland: 0
	pinned: 0
	fullscreen: 0
	fullscreenClient: 0
	grouped: 0
	tags: 
	swallowing: 0
	focusHistoryID: 0

The difference between thunar-open with micro(micro.desktop) and thunar-open terminal here-micro micro.desktop:

How can i fix that?

What I've tried:
1.following up this https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=15563 with setting up custom terminal.
2.Messing with .desktop files of editors, setting it to

Exec=TerminalEmulator -e nvim %F

completely deletes option from thunar's context menu, setting

Terminal=false

(without changing exec) remains it in menu but do nothing while executed.
Current micro.desktop setup (shown on screen above) is:

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Micro
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Edit text files in a terminal

Icon=micro
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;Development;
Keywords=text;editor;syntax;terminal;

Exec=kitty -e micro %F
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=true
MimeType=text/plain;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-java;text/x-dsrc;text/x-pascal;text/x-perl;text/x-python;application/x-php;application/x-httpd-php3;application/x-httpd-php4;application/x-httpd-php5;application/xml;text/html;text/css;text/x-sql;text/x-diff;

SOLVED: I am a dummy, some colour-defining lines in kitty.conf was not commented out.

Last edited by Flixerious (2024-08-22 20:20:25)