[SOLVED] Gnome-Do Movie player instead of Nautilus

[walrus_t]

Hello,

I use LMDE (64 bits) and I just installed UP4. I've got an ASUS Rock mini-PC, with NVIDIA Vision 3D graphics card. I have a problem with Gnome-Do which I launch using Win+<space>: when I try to open a folder using Gnome-Do, instead of opening it with Nautilus, it tries to open it with... Movie Player!

Any solution?

Thanks!

[walrus_t]

I'm using Cinnamon, and same thing happens when I try to open removable drive location using the "removable drive applet"... :s

[walrus_t]

*bump*

[äxl]

Could you please give the output of
cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

[walrus_t]

Here it is:

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[Added Associations]
application/x-deb=gdebi.desktop;
text/plain=emacs23.desktop;
application/x-trash=emacs23.desktop;
application/pdf=libreoffice-writer.desktop;
audio/midi=rhythmbox.desktop;
inode/directory=totem.desktop;
application/x-php=firefox.desktop;

[Default Applications]
text/plain=emacs23.desktop
application/pdf=evince.desktop
audio/midi=totem.desktop
inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop
application/x-php=gedit.desktop
text/html=chromium.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=chromium.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=chromium.desktop
x-scheme-handler/about=chromium.desktop
x-scheme-handler/unknown=chromium.desktop

[walrus_t]

Is there anything wrong with the content of this file?

[FDF]

Hi, I guess that in the [Added Associations] part, the line "inode/directory=totem.desktop;" is the source of the problem, as Totem is the name of the video player.

Maybe you should try to comment this line?

[walrus_t]

Thanks!
You were right. Everything's fine now

[walrus_t]

Hi again,

I think I know what caused the "problem": I've just mounted an ISO image and read the DVD by drag&dropping the video_ts folder into VLC; and it messed the mimeapps.list file again. This time, opening folder launched VLC...

Any way to fix that so I don't have to comment lines in mimeapps.list each time I open a video_ts type directory?

Thanks!

[äxl]

Any way to fix that so I don't have to comment lines in mimeapps.list each time I open a video_ts type directory?

When you're sure you have a good mimeapps.list you could make it unwritable for others with chmod and chown or even make it immutable with chattr.

[walrus_t]

Strange but... Group and Others had only read-only permissions... and I had to change the owner (me!) permissions to read-only. Workds perfectly tough, but it could be a problem no? If I decide later to open certain type of files with certain programs, I may not be able to do so without reverting to read and write permissions for owner? Am I wrong?

[äxl]

You can still Open With Other Application... The specified application just won't be stored anymore and you have to instruct it every time. (Though I still think you need to make the file immutable.)

[walrus_t]

I'll stay with that solution for now... (file immutable)