totem opens favorite folders instead of Nautilus

[BobSongs]

When I click:

Places > Downloads

or

Places > Videos

or

Places > Documents (etc.)

rather than Nautilus opening the appropriate folder, totem tries to open the folder. totem will fill itself with the files it finds in the folder and complain that it doesn't have a plug-in to open text files, etc.

What can I tweak in order to restore browsing to Nautilus from totem?

[audiomick]

Hallo BobSongs,
I have no help, but maybe the same problem.
I updated a laptop for a friend via fresh install from 8.04 to 9.10 after shrinking the /home partition, which was reused, and enlarging the / partition.

After the fresh install, the "places" menu started behaving in a similar manner.
The link to "filesystem" works, some others do nothing, and several cause Rhytmnbox to open and want to play something.
I'm stumped, so I will be watching to see if you get a reply.

[BobSongs]

>> bump <<

[Wardje]

I believe this needed an edit of ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

So boot up a terminal and type

cd ~/.local/share/applications
vim mimeapps.list

Note: you can of course use another text editor than vim. eg: nano, gedit, ...

Look for a line that says

inode/directory=STUFFHERE;

Most likely, the STUFFHERE part will start with "totem.desktop;". Remove the totem entry (entries are seperated by ;, be sure to remove everything of the totem entry). Either way, what you want is the nautilus entry to be the first (if there is no nautilus entry whatsoever, put "nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;" right after the "=". Then save.


If this is a systemwide problem, you might have to edit this file instead

/etc/gnome/defaults.list

[BobSongs]

Ahh! Thanks, Wardje. Let me spew the contents of that file:

[Added Associations]
application/x-extension-drive=totem.desktop;
inode/directory=totem.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-gwenview.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;
x-content/audio-cdda=sound-juicer.desktop;
x-content/video-dvd=totem.desktop;
x-content/audio-player=rhythmbox.desktop;
x-content/image-dcf=f-spot-import.desktop;

Seems you nailed it on the head. There it is: "totem.desktop". Seems my ~ folder is revealing that I've tried adding several desktops. I'll clean out the superfluous entries.

Thanks again!!

Edit:

The ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file was edited in gedit without root privileges. The line

inode/directory=totem.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-gwenview.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;

was simply changed to

inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;

I logged out of the account and logged back in. Things seem to be working perfectly. The only "change" is that Nautilus doesn't seem to show any "eject" buttons next to removable drives. However, these show up on teh desktop. And that's good enough for me.

[Orfintain]

thanks so much

I was having the same problem with rhythmbox doing the same thing

[audiomick]

I believe this needed an edit of ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

So boot up a terminal and type

cd ~/.local/share/applications
vim mimeapps.list

Note: you can of course use another text editor than vim. eg: nano, gedit, ...

Look for a line that says

inode/directory=STUFFHERE;

Most likely, the STUFFHERE part will start with "totem.desktop;". Remove the totem entry (entries are seperated by ;, be sure to remove everything of the totem entry). Either way, what you want is the nautilus entry to be the first (if there is no nautilus entry whatsoever, put "nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;" right after the "=". Then save.


If this is a systemwide problem, you might have to edit this file instead

/etc/gnome/defaults.list

THANKS! Needed that for a computer that I look after for a friend. It worked.

[xavierneuman]

I had the same problem and found an easier solution (for absolute beginners, at least).

You right click on any folder* and go to the "Open with other application".
There you select File Browser and check the box "Remember this application for 'folder' files".

There you have it. It worked for me.

*If you haven`t got a folder on your desktop, you can open Nautilus from the terminal and right clicking any folder you have.

[kendoori]

I had the same problem and found an easier solution (for absolute beginners, at least).

You right click on any folder* and go to the "Open with other application".
There you select File Browser and check the box "Remember this application for 'folder' files".

There you have it. It worked for me.

*If you haven`t got a folder on your desktop, you can open Nautilus from the terminal and right clicking any folder you have.

This worked for me too... I'd been doing some cleanup of my "Open With" and somehow messed up associations with folders. This fixed that.

[alfh]

When you want to open a folder with totem or some other application, the intuitive way is right-click folder and choose "open with..."

Then if you keep the "remember this program..." option totem will become the default program to open that folder and users get confused because suddenly default behaviour changed.

So what's counter-intuitive here is that the "remember" box is checked by default - and maybe that the description is a bit misleading. It could read something like "change default program for this folder" instead.