Fix Firefox's download button "Open Containing Folder" issue

[Moat]

So... you know the annoying issue of how in various Puppies and Linux distros, when selecting "Open Containing Folder" from Firefox's (and it's brethren) Download toolbar button's right-click context menu or "Show All Downloads" window - it'll ask for "need to select an application to open" and no selection (such as the file manager/Rox) ever works, to successfully open the targeted Downloads (or whichever chosen) directory?

Geoffrey and I dug up a super simple fix (while chasing a bug of multiple directories opening instead) that works on Carolina 1.2 and Precise 5.7.1, and who knows - maybe all Linux distros that show this nagging behavior!

For Carolina...

... there is a defaults.list in /usr/share/applications, so I added inode/directory=Thunar.desktop there instead.

... fixed Carolina's opening of three downloads directories - it now opens the desired one.

And for Precise, I found this works - adding...

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inode/directory=ROX-Filer-file-manager.desktop

... to the defaults.list in /usr/share/applications. Precise now opens the Downloads directory as it should.

If you have either issue, give it a shot - maybe having to tweak the path text to match your particular system's file manager .desktop file's name, if different - and report back!



Bob

[Puppus Dogfellow]

So... you know the annoying issue of how in various Puppies and Linux distros, when selecting "Open Containing Folder" from Firefox's (and it's brethren) Download toolbar button's right-click context menu or "Show All Downloads" window - it'll ask for "need to select an application to open" and no selection (such as the file manager/Rox) ever works, to successfully open the targeted Downloads (or whichever chosen) directory?

Geoffrey and I dug up a super simple fix (while chasing a bug of multiple directories opening instead) that works on Carolina 1.2 and Precise 5.7.1, and who knows - maybe all Linux distros that show this nagging behavior!

For Carolina...

... there is a defaults.list in /usr/share/applications, so I added inode/directory=Thunar.desktop there instead.

... fixed Carolina's opening of three downloads directories - it now opens the desired one.

And for Precise, I found this works - adding...

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inode/directory=ROX-Filer-file-manager.desktop

... to the defaults.list in /usr/share/applications. Precise now opens the Downloads directory as it should.

If you have either issue, give it a shot - maybe having to tweak the path text to match your particular system's file manager .desktop file's name, if different - and report back!



Bob

thank you!

(fixes the problem in precise 5.5 and 5.6.1 as well)

[Moat]

Oh, good - I'm not just imagining things, then. Thanks for the report, Puppus!

Bob

[B.K. Johnson]

As I am using slacko-5.7 in which the file-manager is ROX, I used your suggestion:

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inode/directory=ROX-Filer-file-manager.desktop

Sad to say it didn't work.

Nobody mentioned ROX in my browsing but the bug seems to have been in several file managers for a long time

B.K. Johnson

[disciple]

If there's a "bug", it's not in the file managers

[B.K. Johnson]

This might be a good resource for a talented community member to solve this problem.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ed-756855/

B.K. Johnson

[666philb]

form this thred http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45282

fyujj

Now rox has the -U option to deal with that so here's the how-to:

as root, make a new file /usr/local/bin/roxuri and copy the following into it:
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#!/bin/sh
exec rox -U "$@"


make the new file executable for all by using ROX or by issuing the command:
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chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/roxuri


open Firefox/Iceweasel and set it to use the script to open files with Edit -> Preferences -> Applications: file and selecting /usr/local/bin/roxuri

[B.K. Johnson]

@666philb
You missed the post in the thread that followed the one you quoted. It provides the related fix for seamonkey.

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I'm using Seamonkey 2.19 and there was no "file" content type under Edit > Preferences > Helper Applications. In this case, go to Tools > Download Manager > right-click a download > Open Containing Folder > Choose... > choose the roxuri file from fyujj's instructions. If the containing folder opens, repeat the process ticking the 'remember my choice' box. 

Have not tried it.

B.K. Johnson

[Smithy]

Great, that fix works in DPup Wheezy, and yes it was a mildly annoying little thing!

inode/directory=ROX-Filer-file-manager.desktop

[chillinfart]

I tried the tip for slacko on 5.7, but now ROX drops 3 windows when with the bug drops two. What i made wrong ?

[dejan555]

Similar thread here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72652

[MikeyBrat]

SO WORKS in the new Slacko 6.3.0!
Thanks

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Slacko 6.3.0 frugal usb... among so many other Puppies.

[uio]

Thanks !

[rg66]

For Xfce puppies (Carolina, X-slacko, NOP etc...), make a desktop file called exo-open.desktop in /usr/share/applications with this in it:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Name=exo-open
Exec=exo-open --launch filemanager
Icon=applications-other

Edit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list to have:

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inode/directory=exo-open.desktop

and it will open in your default file manager as set in Preferred Applications


Edit: If exo-file-manager.desktop is already there (part of exo pkg), you can just add

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inode/directory=exo-file-manager.desktop

to /usr/share/applications/defaults.list