Re: [Mageia-discuss] Damaged configuration in M2

[Marja van Waes]

On 02/03/13 18:35, Anne Wilson wrote:



For the last few days the notifier for removable drives has been
causing a wrong trigger.  When I choose Open in File Manager it
starts Gimp - with predictable failure to read the directory.

I have no idea what caused the change, or even when it started.  I
don't think the actions are defined in systemsettings, so I assume
there is a text file somewhere that defines the actions.  How can I
get this back to sensible action?

Anne


Does the problem also exist with:
* a different or new user profile
* a different desktop environment

Which DE do you use, btw?

Cheers,
Marja

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Damaged configuration in M2 - SOLVED

[Marja van Waes]

On 03/03/13 17:32, Anne Wilson wrote:




I found it!  In systemsettings  File Associations  inode Gimp was
the top of the list!  I can't imagine how it got there, since there
isn't any circumstance I can think of where you would try to open a
directory with gimp - but there you are!  With that entry removed,
notifier opens the devices with Dolphin again.

Anne


Congratulations!

TBH, I didn't have the faintest idea what could be wrong :)

Cheers,
Marja

Re: [Mageia-discuss] Damaged configuration in M2 - SOLVED

[Anne Wilson]

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On 03/03/13 16:39, Marja van Waes wrote:
 On 03/03/13 17:32, Anne Wilson wrote:
 
 
 I found it!  In systemsettings  File Associations  inode Gimp
 was the top of the list!  I can't imagine how it got there, since
 there isn't any circumstance I can think of where you would try
 to open a directory with gimp - but there you are!  With that
 entry removed, notifier opens the devices with Dolphin again.
 
 Anne
 
 Congratulations!
 
 TBH, I didn't have the faintest idea what could be wrong :)
 
When you've looked in all the likely places, start on the unlikely
ones :-)  The problem seemed so unlikely that I didn't really expect
anyone to be able to give me a definitive answer, but was hoping for
some comment to break my circle of thinking.  I assume you managed
just that, as almost immediately afterwards I started looking at File
Associations (I hadn't thought of Device Notifier in that light).  I
did know from experience many years ago, that Inode is the place to
look if there is any kind of problem with viewing directories.  The
rest followed simply :-)

Thanks for the help

Anne
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