This has to be file association "thing", but I'm not sure how to get to the solution.
Ubuntu 16.04 TDE 14.0.7
I just added dropbox (for my existing Dropbox account) to a computer where it was not yet installed.
Everything works "OK" ... .... except:
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu. Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!! (kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
I'm pretty sure 'it' wants to launch a file manager, but I do not know how to look behind the curtain of the System Tray object and see what it is attempting to do.
And, if I go into Trinity Control Center >> TDE Components >> File Associations -- I see I might have a thousand or more file types and associations. But, I do not know how Dropbox is issuing the request -- e.g., I do not know what file type is involved.
I must be overlooking something to debug this. What?
Thank you, Jonesy
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 13:25:37 -0600 (MDT) "Marvin Jones via trinity-users" trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
This has to be file association "thing", but I'm not sure how to get to the solution.
Ubuntu 16.04 TDE 14.0.7
I just added dropbox (for my existing Dropbox account) to a computer where it was not yet installed.
Everything works "OK" ... .... except:
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu. Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!! (kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
I'm pretty sure 'it' wants to launch a file manager, but I do not know how to look behind the curtain of the System Tray object and see what it is attempting to do.
And, if I go into Trinity Control Center >> TDE Components >> File Associations -- I see I might have a thousand or more file types and associations. But, I do not know how Dropbox is issuing the request -- e.g., I do not know what file type is involved.
I must be overlooking something to debug this. What?
inode/directory probably
But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default file manager
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu. Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!! (kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
inode/directory probably
But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default file manager
By golly, I believe you pinned it down! With your guidance I guessed at what was going on "behind the curtain" and entered:
$ xdg-open $HOME/Dropbox
and Kid3 opened up in the Dropbox directory!
Now to find out how to strip kid3 from the assignment in xdg-mime -- having never dealt with xdg-open / xdg-mime before.
Thank you! Jonesy
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu. Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!! (kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
inode/directory probably
But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default file manager
By golly, I believe you pinned it down! With your guidance I guessed at what was going on "behind the curtain" and entered:
$ xdg-open $HOME/Dropbox
and Kid3 opened up in the Dropbox directory!
Now to find out how to strip kid3 from the assignment in xdg-mime -- having never dealt with xdg-open / xdg-mime before.
Well, maybe it's not inode/directory Tho' you would think so.
jonesy@nix5:~$ xdg-mime query filetype Dropbox inode/directory jonesy@nix5:~$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory konqueror.desktop
I think xdg-xxxxxx is a rabbit hole I don't want to bother going down.
I can live with Dropbox's other access options.
Thank you for your time, Nick! Jonesy
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 15:41:46 -0600 (MDT) "Marvin Jones via trinity-users" trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu. Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!! (kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
inode/directory probably
But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default file manager
By golly, I believe you pinned it down! With your guidance I guessed at what was going on "behind the curtain" and entered:
$ xdg-open $HOME/Dropbox
and Kid3 opened up in the Dropbox directory!
Now to find out how to strip kid3 from the assignment in xdg-mime -- having never dealt with xdg-open / xdg-mime before.
Well, maybe it's not inode/directory Tho' you would think so.
jonesy@nix5:~$ xdg-mime query filetype Dropbox inode/directory jonesy@nix5:~$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory konqueror.desktop
I think xdg-xxxxxx is a rabbit hole I don't want to bother going down.
I can live with Dropbox's other access options.
Well, xdg-mime is a somewhat mysterious thingie, but you can try mess with mime directly. Either by finding kid3 .desktop file and removing inode/directory (or whatever dropbox hooks with, it could be some kind of uri), or edit/create mimeapps.list
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