Default filesystem browser is Remote Desktop Viewer?

[johan851]

I apologize if this is a bit of a noob question - I've tried searching around, and I can't really figure out why I'm having this issue.

Whenever I try to open a folder or some other location on disk through any program, I get the Remote Desktop Viewer. For example, if I go to Places --> Home Folder, the RDV opens up and says "the connection to /home/<me>" is closed. It's very odd. I get the same behavior in Chromium if I select "Show in Folder" for a download.

If I go to the terminal and type 'xdg-open ~' or 'gnome-open ~' I also get the Remote Desktop Viewer, just like I do when I select home from the Places menu.

Any ideas on how to fix what got overridden? Thanks!

[johan851]

Bump. No one has any ideas?

[Krytarik]

Open the file "~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" ("~" is your home directory) and lookup the entry for "inode/directory", it should be like this:

inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;
Here is a good explanation of what may have caused it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1675491

[johan851]

Thanks! I opened it up, and the only entry is this:


inode/directory=vinagre.desktop;

I changed it to what you said, and now it's fixed. There are way too many places for all these settings to live. Thanks for the help!