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unity-place-files package

  1. Bug #751374
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 751374

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Subharo Bhikkhu (subharo) wrote :

PhobosK: I tried your fix, but it didn't work. Here's what I did.

1) Added your PPA: https://launchpad.net/~phobosk/+archive/phobosk-ppa
2) apt-get update; apt-get install exo-utils # ...and I could see exo-utils downloading from your PPA)
3) ran "exo-preferred-applications". Changed "File Manager" from "Thunar" back to "Nautilus". Pressed "Close" button.
4) Tried to launch a file from the Dash. Same error message as before! "The location is not a folder"

PhobosK: does your fix only "save" users who haven't yet gotten into the situation I'm in (where "exo-preferred-applications" has it's File Manager changed from "No application selected" to "Nautilus")? I'm not sure what your fix does, as experienced by the end user (in my steps that reproduced the bug). Does your fix prevent users from being asked to choose the default file manager in the first place (when they're not in XFCE, as was my case)?

Is there any fix to get people like me out of the situation we're currently in, perhaps somehow putting "No application selected" back into place in "exo-preferred-applications", or some other config file?