Re: Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:38:19 -0400
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> When I select a file and:
>
> - double-click
> - hit RET
> - hit C-o
> - select "Open with <the-default-application>" in the menu
>
> Nautilus only refreshes the current window, placing the selected file
> at the top and nothing else (where I expect that it should launch the
> application, passing to it the selected file name).
>
> The only way I found to convince Nautilus to really pass those files
> to the corresponding application is to select "Open with other
> application" and then to select the desired (usually the default)
> application in the dialog box.
>
> This is on a Debian stable machine where this operation used to work
> just fine until very recently (maybe it changed when I installed the
> 10.1 update? I'm not sure if it's correlated but it's possible).
>
> Any idea what might be going on, how to investigate, or how to fix it?
Regression? Does this look familiar?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874003
About two years ago. It seems to involve something a bit subtle in the
user profile, possibly connected with Xfce.
--
Joe
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