changing default filemanager

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buildcomplete
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Beigetreten: 01/26/2015

hello fellow humans et al.

As you might know, I am using fluxbox as my window manager and have trimmed down on some of default stuff that comes with trisquel...

I have removed nautilus, since it gave problems overriding fluxboxes 'right click' in practice making fluxbox unusable. also I like PCmanFM better. which is now installed.

but it seems I have some problems getting it propper integrated.

Example; from my text editor (atom), If I right click a file or directory and selects 'reveal in file manager' it now opens the directory in Abrowser.

Also, from ABrowser, after having downloaded a file... well I was about to write nothing happens, but now after rechecking it does work... I swear it didn't work one minute ago... I did ofcourse manually start PCManFM in between.... I will restart and update, one sec....

buildcomplete
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Beigetreten: 01/26/2015

hmm apparently it works now in ABrowser from the download manager.

Anyway, any idea what the problem could be with atom?
When I had nautilus, it used to work.

a_slacker_here
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Beigetreten: 06/29/2013

I don't quite know what could be happening but to make your favorite file manager default, you have to use the xdg standards:

Look, to make your beloved pcmanfm the default manager, put this on the terminal:

$ xdg-mime default pcmanfm.desktop inode/directory

If you change your idea and want another file manager, switch pcmanfm.desktop for the file that corresponds to the file manager you want in "/usr/share/applications".

the file that handles these defaults are located in "~/.local/applications/mimeapps.list".

I hopped It worked.

buildcomplete
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Beigetreten: 01/26/2015

thanks slacker that worked :)

note that the mimeapps.list is in ~/.local/share/applications/

a_slacker_here
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Beigetreten: 06/29/2013

"note that the mimeapps.list is in ~/.local/share/applications/"

Sorry, my mistake.

I'm glad it worked :-)

t3g
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Beigetreten: 05/15/2011
Dave_Hunt

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Beigetreten: 09/19/2011

Why doesn't GNOME have a gui for changing these preferences, as does Mate and, maybe, XFCE?