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.CONF files default to opening in LibreOffice rather than Mousepad when running Thunar as root

Bug #2020921 reported by NM64 on 2023-05-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Tested on the live ISO of Xubuntu 23.04

An incredibly simple bug - for whatever reason, when you run Thunar as root, .CONF files will default to opening with LibreOffice.

By contrast, when you're not running Thunar as root, .CONF files will default to opening with Mousepad.

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NM64 (nm64) on 2023-05-26

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NM64 (nm64) wrote on 2023-05-26 (last edit on 2023-05-26):

video demonstration via live ISO of Xubuntu 23.04 Edit (4.1 MiB, video/webm)

Here's a video demonstration, again on the live ISO of Xubuntu 23.04.

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NM64 (nm64) wrote on 2023-09-30:

It would seem that this still exists in Xubuntu 23.10 beta.

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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote on 2024-03-23:

Thanks for reporting this issue. Unfortunately, there isn't anything that can be done about this specific bug. When you run an application as root, you lose some environment variables. In particular, the XDG_ variables that are loaded in the user session are not carried to the root session.

XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop:/usr/share

Our default application associations exist in /usr/share/xubuntu/applications/defaults.list. Without those defaults, any application registered for text/plain can open it by default. I think they're evaluated alphabetically.