28 Jun
2022
28 Jun
'22
5:36 p.m.
jakolineplayer--- via tde-users wrote:
Hello, the default file manager for TDE is Konqueror,
also Dolphin is
available in the repos, is either of them capable of communicating with
modern versions of Firefox to do things such as opening folders and
selecting (highlight) the downloaded files?
Also, as I remember when I used TDE about a year ago, once a foreign file
manager is installed (say Caja or pcmanfm) Firefox automatically starts
using them to show downloaded files and forgets completely about Konqueror
and Dolphin, I know that it's known bug in Firefox, but is there a tested
work-around to fix that? Can a TDE user force Firefox to use Konqueror or
Dolphin to open files?
So my msg contains two questions:
1) Can Firefox communicate with Konqueror or Dolphin to show/highlight my
downloaded files and to access my folders?
2) Can I force Firefox to use Konqueror (or Dolphin) as my prefered file
manager?
Hi :)
Regarding #1, I haven't seen any Linux file manager do that. What kind of UI
interaction in Firefox would you expect to trigger the selection/highlight of
files in a file manager? I only know of options to either open/execute a
downloaded file or opening its parent folder from Firefox.
Regarding #2:
I just tried it on my system and even installed Caja to provoke this behavior
but it still opens with Konqueror by default. Then I read
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/504071
... and added the following line to my "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" file:
inode/directory=caja.desktop
I didn't even need to restart Firefox, it already opened Caja the next time I
clicked on the little folder icon next to a downloaded file in the downloads
list. As soon as I removed that line from the aforementioned file again,
Firefox returned to using Konqueror instantly.
Can you check if you have such "inode/directory" entry in
your "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" and remove it if there is any?
If there isn't any such entry you could try
adding "inode/directory=konqueror.desktop" instead.
Best regards, Leskala