When using either "Main Menu (The Main MATE menu)"
or "Menu Bar (A custom menu bar)"
and "Places" is selected, then
no matter which place you click on (Home, Desktop, Downloads, etc)
then Xplayer pops up and tries to play the sorted contents of that place, whatever that happens to be .pdf, .txt, .tar.gz, etc, etc.
The "mintMenu (Advanced Menu) circumvents this MATE bug by not having a "Places" option.
Of the 3 menus offered, the 2 MATE menus fail
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Of the 3 menus offered, the 2 MATE menus fail
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Re: Of the 3 menus offered, the 2 MATE menus fail
1. The default menu has a "Places" option, too. It's even enabled by default. If you disabled it, you can enable it again by right clicking the menu button > Preferences.
2. Xplayer popping up is no bug, either, just another misconfiguration on your system (I take it you re-used an existing home folder?). Go Menu > Preferred Applications and make sure the file browser is set to Caja. If caja is no option, edit
2. Xplayer popping up is no bug, either, just another misconfiguration on your system (I take it you re-used an existing home folder?). Go Menu > Preferred Applications and make sure the file browser is set to Caja. If caja is no option, edit
~/.config/mimeapps.list
in a text editor and either remove all inode/directory
entries or make sure they look like this inode/directory=caja-folder-handler.desktop
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Re: Of the 3 menus offered, the 2 MATE menus fail
Thank you for your reply. It's good to know that someone who understands MATE is on the forum.
However, in my view, a "misconfiguration", or installed code that misconfigures, on my system IS a bug.
1. I did not disable any "Places" option. There are 3 menus. Which are you calling the "default" menu? Do you mean the Linux Mint menu? Could you be more specific about what to do after clicking the menu button > Preferences?
2. I never "re-use" an existing home folder, whatever that means. In "Preferred Applications", File Manager is set to "Open Folder with Thunar" as 1st option and Caja as second. I didn't directly change that option, although I did install Thunar, because Caja has a selectable option named "Open Folder with Thunar", plus I like some of Thunar's behaviour in preference to Caja.
Below is the file ~/.config/mimeapps.list.
How do I comment out a line? #? Or do I really have to remove the inode lines?
-----------------------------------
[Added Associations]
audio/mpeg=vlc.desktop;xplayer.desktop;
text/plain=xed.desktop;
inode/directory=caja-folder-handler.desktop;Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=caja-folder-handler.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/about=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/mailto=thunderbird.desktop
application/x-extension-eml=thunderbird.desktop
message/rfc822=thunderbird.desktop
text/plain=xed.desktop
audio/mpeg=vlc.desktop
audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop
audio/x-scpls=vlc.desktop
audio/x-vorbis+ogg=vlc.desktop
audio/x-wav=vlc.desktop
video/mp4=xplayer.desktop
video/mpeg=xplayer.desktop
video/mp2t=xplayer.desktop
video/msvideo=xplayer.desktop
video/quicktime=xplayer.desktop
video/webm=xplayer.desktop
video/x-avi=xplayer.desktop
video/x-flv=xplayer.desktop
video/x-matroska=xplayer.desktop
video/x-mpeg=xplayer.desktop
video/x-ogm+ogg=xplayer.desktop
image/bmp=xviewer.desktop
image/gif=xviewer.desktop
image/jpeg=xviewer.desktop
image/png=xviewer.desktop
image/tiff=xviewer.desktop
application/pdf=xreader.desktop
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text=libreoffice-writer.desktop
application/msword=libreoffice-writer.desktop
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=libreoffice-writer.desktop
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet=libreoffice-calc.desktop
application/vnd.ms-excel=libreoffice-calc.desktop
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=libreoffice-calc.desktop
---------------------------------------------------------
I'm guessing that the bug is related to the inappropriate handling of the installation of Thunar.
There is also another problem with the LinuxMint menu: It truncates items in the 2nd and 3rd columns because it cannot adjust to a larger font being chosen.
Thanks again for your help.
However, in my view, a "misconfiguration", or installed code that misconfigures, on my system IS a bug.
1. I did not disable any "Places" option. There are 3 menus. Which are you calling the "default" menu? Do you mean the Linux Mint menu? Could you be more specific about what to do after clicking the menu button > Preferences?
2. I never "re-use" an existing home folder, whatever that means. In "Preferred Applications", File Manager is set to "Open Folder with Thunar" as 1st option and Caja as second. I didn't directly change that option, although I did install Thunar, because Caja has a selectable option named "Open Folder with Thunar", plus I like some of Thunar's behaviour in preference to Caja.
Below is the file ~/.config/mimeapps.list.
How do I comment out a line? #? Or do I really have to remove the inode lines?
-----------------------------------
[Added Associations]
audio/mpeg=vlc.desktop;xplayer.desktop;
text/plain=xed.desktop;
inode/directory=caja-folder-handler.desktop;Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=caja-folder-handler.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/about=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/mailto=thunderbird.desktop
application/x-extension-eml=thunderbird.desktop
message/rfc822=thunderbird.desktop
text/plain=xed.desktop
audio/mpeg=vlc.desktop
audio/x-mpegurl=vlc.desktop
audio/x-scpls=vlc.desktop
audio/x-vorbis+ogg=vlc.desktop
audio/x-wav=vlc.desktop
video/mp4=xplayer.desktop
video/mpeg=xplayer.desktop
video/mp2t=xplayer.desktop
video/msvideo=xplayer.desktop
video/quicktime=xplayer.desktop
video/webm=xplayer.desktop
video/x-avi=xplayer.desktop
video/x-flv=xplayer.desktop
video/x-matroska=xplayer.desktop
video/x-mpeg=xplayer.desktop
video/x-ogm+ogg=xplayer.desktop
image/bmp=xviewer.desktop
image/gif=xviewer.desktop
image/jpeg=xviewer.desktop
image/png=xviewer.desktop
image/tiff=xviewer.desktop
application/pdf=xreader.desktop
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text=libreoffice-writer.desktop
application/msword=libreoffice-writer.desktop
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document=libreoffice-writer.desktop
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet=libreoffice-calc.desktop
application/vnd.ms-excel=libreoffice-calc.desktop
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=libreoffice-calc.desktop
---------------------------------------------------------
I'm guessing that the bug is related to the inappropriate handling of the installation of Thunar.
There is also another problem with the LinuxMint menu: It truncates items in the 2nd and 3rd columns because it cannot adjust to a larger font being chosen.
Thanks again for your help.
Re: Of the 3 menus offered, the 2 MATE menus fail
Default is the menu you got in an unmodified installation, basically what the live USB looks like. So yes, the one with the Mint logo. Preferences look like this, the Places plugin is enabled by default but maybe you unchecked it accidentally:AlbertWagner wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:08 pm 1. I did not disable any "Places" option. There are 3 menus. Which are you calling the "default" menu? Do you mean the Linux Mint menu? Could you be more specific about what to do after clicking the menu button > Preferences?
That looks good, I see nothing in that file that would associate folders with xplayer. seems to be correctly set to caja now. Log out and back in and that should work. It should also be possible to use Thunar but I don't have that installed so can't test.AlbertWagner wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:08 pm 2. I never "re-use" an existing home folder, whatever that means. In "Preferred Applications", File Manager is set to "Open Folder with Thunar" as 1st option and Caja as second. I didn't directly change that option, although I did install Thunar, because Caja has a selectable option named "Open Folder with Thunar", plus I like some of Thunar's behaviour in preference to Caja.
The menu has a fixed width. You can make it wider like this (paste into a terminal window, adjust the number to the width you want, default is 480):AlbertWagner wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:08 pm There is also another problem with the LinuxMint menu: It truncates items in the 2nd and 3rd columns because it cannot adjust to a larger font being chosen.
Code: Select all
dconf write /com/linuxmint/mintmenu/plugins/applications/width 800
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Re: Of the 3 menus offered, the 2 MATE menus fail
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Thank you very much.
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Everything is working well now.
Thank you very much.
I'm slow on the uptake, but I work hard at it.
Everything is working well now.