On 2022-10-26, Matt Connell <m...@connell.tech> wrote: > On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:31 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Google led me to several pages where the problem was not having gvfs >> installed. I do have gvfs installed, but I suspect it's broken. I get >> the impression that >> >> $ gio list sftp://<host>/<path> >> >> is supposed to work, but that too says "Operation not supported".
Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a mystery. [Is there a GNOME development group dedicated to making error messages as meaningless as possible? If yes, then they're doing a stellar job.] > I don't use pcmanfm, but I do have gvfs installed. Trying to "gio list > sftp://host"; returns "The specified location is not mounted", so at > least my behavior is different. After launching a dbus session with $ dbus-launch bash And then running 'gio list' in the bash instance that is created above, I get the "location is not mounted error" A subsequent gio mount command then succeeds $ gio mount sftp://<host>/<path> After which the "gio list" command works as expected. When I run pcmanfm-qt from that same bash instance, sftp URLs work. GNOME: making life overly complicated since 1999! -- Grant
