4 Aug
2019
4 Aug
'19
7:25 p.m.
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
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Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux
Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __
38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | OS/2 SK
4 Aug
4 Aug
8:29 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] System Tray Dropbox opens wrong application
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 13:25:37 -0600 (MDT)
"Marvin Jones via trinity-users"
<trinity-users(a)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
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Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)
8:59 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] System Tray Dropbox opens wrong application
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
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 $HOME/Dropbox
and Kid3 opened up in the Dropbox directory!
Now to find out how to strip kid3 from the assignment in xdg-mime --
having never dealt with xdg-open / xdg-mime before.
Thank you!
Jonesy
--
Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux
Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __
38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | OS/2 SK
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu.
Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!!
(kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
inode/directory probably
But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses
xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default
file manager
9:41 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] System Tray Dropbox opens wrong application
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
Well, maybe it's not inode/directory
Tho' you would think so.
jonesy@nix5:~$ 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, Marvin Jones wrote:
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 $HOME/Dropbox
and Kid3 opened up in the Dropbox directory!
Now to find out how to strip kid3 from the assignment in xdg-mime --
having never dealt with xdg-open / xdg-mime before.
Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu.
Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!!
(kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
inode/directory probably
But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses
xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default
file manager
10:20 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] System Tray Dropbox opens wrong application
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 15:41:46 -0600 (MDT)
"Marvin Jones via trinity-users"
<trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
Well, xdg-mime is a somewhat mysterious thingie, but you can try mess with
mime directly. Either by finding kid3 .desktop file and removing
inode/directory (or whatever dropbox hooks with, it could be some kind of
uri), or edit/create mimeapps.list
--
Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
Well, maybe it's not inode/directory
Tho' you would think so.
jonesy@nix5:~$ 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. On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
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.
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
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