James M Weir III
September 14th, 2009, 11:38 PM
I'm not entirely sure what caused this issue as I was modifying several things earlier today. But shortly after doing an update and rebooting I ran into a strange issue with Nautilus.
When I went to Places in the main menu and chose any folder (home/desktop/documents, etc) it would give me an error that it couldn't find the location [file:///home/jimmy/documents]. I verified that the folders were all still there. When I opened the filesystem Nautilus launched just fine and I could navigate to those folders just fine.
So I did a little research and followed what appears to be an outdated method of changing the default action for opening folders in Nautilus. I later found out that you apparently can't change that default action (at least not in any GUI menu). But in the process I went to Open With > and as a test just picked gedit to see if it would change the behavior of the Places menu. It did... So now whenever I open any folder from a launcher it attempts to run the directory in gedit.
I've tried removing/reinstalling nautilus, I've tried moving the config files in my directory, and I've searched everywhere for a file containing the 'gedit' setting. Attempting to have Nautilus Open With > another program does nothing. So apparently I've somehow changed the default behavior to gedit and cannot change it / reset it.
Any ideas?
When I went to Places in the main menu and chose any folder (home/desktop/documents, etc) it would give me an error that it couldn't find the location [file:///home/jimmy/documents]. I verified that the folders were all still there. When I opened the filesystem Nautilus launched just fine and I could navigate to those folders just fine.
So I did a little research and followed what appears to be an outdated method of changing the default action for opening folders in Nautilus. I later found out that you apparently can't change that default action (at least not in any GUI menu). But in the process I went to Open With > and as a test just picked gedit to see if it would change the behavior of the Places menu. It did... So now whenever I open any folder from a launcher it attempts to run the directory in gedit.
I've tried removing/reinstalling nautilus, I've tried moving the config files in my directory, and I've searched everywhere for a file containing the 'gedit' setting. Attempting to have Nautilus Open With > another program does nothing. So apparently I've somehow changed the default behavior to gedit and cannot change it / reset it.
Any ideas?