Default Trisquel Mate Desktop : distable audio overview

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Substance2004
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Hi

I would like to distable on Trisquel's Mate native desktop the overview of a sound file that plays automatically when you point your arrow at an .mp3, .flac, .ogg...

This makes Nautilus inoperant and have to kill the window when I point at important files.

Thank you.

chaosmonk

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Hi Substance2004,

For your future reference, support questions like this one belong on the Trisquel Users forum.

> I would like to distable on Trisquel's Mate native desktop the overview of a sound file that plays automatically when you point your arrow at an .mp3, .flac, .ogg...

> This makes Nautilus inoperant and have to kill the window when I point at important files.

MATE's default file manager is Caja, not Nautilus. If you have replaced Caja with Nautilus let me know, but for now I'll assume you mean Caja.

In Caja, go to Edit -> Preferences and go to the Preview tab. Change "Preview sound files" from "Local Files Only" to "Never".

GNUser
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Interesting I used to have that "feature" in my old Trisquel 7, but it doesn't work in T8 default installation. I assumed MATE (or maybe specifically caja) didn't allow for that (even though placing the cursor on top of an mp3 icon does show a small sound symbol on the icon. I did check the option in Edit - Preferences - Preview, and all are marked as "local files only". I don't know why it doesn't play sound when I place the cursor on top of a regular mp3 file.

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> Interesting I used to have that "feature" in my old Trisquel 7, but it doesn't work in T8 default installation.

My guess is that you don't have totem installed. That's thew media player that Caja uses for audio previews. See if

$ sudo apt install totem

makes the previews work.

GNUser
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You are right, I don't. I never liked totem, always been a fan of VLC. But it's good to know what needed to do if I want that functionality back. Thanks.

GNUser
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Maybe OP's problem is related to totem and not nautilus/caja?

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I have tried both simply placing the cursor and actually clicking the file to select it and leave the cursor there. Nothing happens.

Although if it's a feature or an anti-feature would depend on the kind of audio files one has and moment we place the cursor on them :P