reallyasi9
July 7th, 2011, 02:29 PM
I have a problem that has been plaguing me for several months now. Every time I select the option to open a containing folder in any context, evince opens and displays an error message telling me it cannot open a file of that type.
The "open a containing folder" I am speaking of is any such action in any application. The most prominent examples are Chromium and Firefox, when I select the option after downloading a file. Other examples include Banshee, when you right-click on a song and request to view the song in its folder, or when I attempt to view the extracted files in File Roller after performing an extraction.
This problem is present under Metacity, Gnome Shell, and Unity, but not Plasma, which leads me to believe it is a problem with Gnome's settings. I have looked through the Preferred Applications settings in Gnome and cannot find a "directory" or "folder" MIME type to which I can assign an application. Can anybody help?
The "open a containing folder" I am speaking of is any such action in any application. The most prominent examples are Chromium and Firefox, when I select the option after downloading a file. Other examples include Banshee, when you right-click on a song and request to view the song in its folder, or when I attempt to view the extracted files in File Roller after performing an extraction.
This problem is present under Metacity, Gnome Shell, and Unity, but not Plasma, which leads me to believe it is a problem with Gnome's settings. I have looked through the Preferred Applications settings in Gnome and cannot find a "directory" or "folder" MIME type to which I can assign an application. Can anybody help?