manic locust
Hi folks.
In firefox, when I download something and I select show in folder, it does not work, nothing happens.
I have tried running firefox in a terminal, but no errors are shown
I have tested gio open . and xdg-open . both work correctly and open Dolphin.
Bit lost from here. Any ideas?
toxic hemlock
Are you running Firefox in a Flatpak?
manic locust
No, it's from pacman
Although, potentially of interest, I was running strace on it and I did notice it was doing a lot of flatpak stuff. Definitely not installed via flatpak though, doesn't show up in flatpak list.
eg
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/azelphur/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/mime/mime.cache", 0x7ffc81d3b260, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/azelphur/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/mime/globs", 0x7ffc81d3b260, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/azelphur/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/mime/magic", 0x7ffc81d3b260, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/mime/mime.cache", 0x7ffc81d3b260, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/mime/globs", 0x7ffc81d3b260, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/mime/magic", 0x7ffc81d3b260, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
seems potentially relevant, I have no idea what the ".mime.types" file is, google has been unhelpful
grave valve
Hi folks.
In firefox, when I download something and I select show in folder, it...
try ```
xdg-mime default org.kde.dolphin.desktop inode/directory
Been around the block with this but I've figured it out (above didn't work)
I had to edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list and set org.kde.dolphin.desktop as the default for inode/directory, and I had to set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1, but it works now 😄
grave valve
I had to edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list and set org.kde.dolphin.desktop as the default for inode/directory
damn, the command i gave does exactly that
but glad you got it fixed
also i don't recommend settings GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 globally
manic locust
strange, I ran it but that file still had it set to kitty, which is a terminal emulator, guess the command didn't work for some reason
grave valve
some apps misbehaves with portal still
manic locust
I see, might make a new .desktop file for firefox and set it there
grave valve
strange, I ran it but that file still had it set to kitty, which is a terminal e...
maybe you're looking at added associations?
manic locust
Not sure what added associations are, but you're right since it breaks Discord file upload 😂
grave valve
Not sure what added associations are, but you're right since it breaks Discord f...
there are two parts to the mimeapps.list file
added associations
and
default applications
manic locust
ah, I changed mine in the default applications section
grave valve
added associations tell what apps can open what mimetypes (file, url, etc)
manic locust
Hmm, what's a good way of setting GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 just for firefox and chrome? initially I thought of editing the .desktop, but that wouldn't help me if I run it from the terminal, and if I overwrite /usr/bin/firefox, an update would just put it back
grave valve
default is that, but defins what the default apps is
while added associations can have multiple apps in it, and is opened via how it is sorted
ways of doing this
gtk-launch desktop-file-here, so gtk-launch firefox, so .desktop is not includedfirefox shell script that sets the variable and runs /usr/bin/firefox in /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin (latter needs to be manually added to path)
manic locust
fair enough, thanks 🙂