Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:53:34AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > It looks like Synaptic starts with user privileges as a wrapper and > PolicyKit asks for root privileges to spawn actual synaptic process. Ah okay, my mistake. Synaptic is another piece of software I've never really

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-16 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 17.04.2019 8:51, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 01:15:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote: >>> I don't have seamonkey installed so haven't tried myself, but does >>> it even run as root? >>> >> I don't use SeaMonkey either, but

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 01:15:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote: > > I don't have seamonkey installed so haven't tried myself, but does > > it even run as root? > > > I don't use SeaMonkey either, but I'm pretty sure it does not need root >

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-16 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.04.2019 12:08, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:06AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> You can add SeaMonkey config manually if you want, but you will have to >> track the changes after that. >>     $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-16 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/04/2019 à 23:05, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] >> root@fromdell:/home/richard# update-alternatives --config >> gnome-www-browser >> There is only one alternative in link group gnome-www-browser >> (providing /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser): /usr/bin/firefox-esr >> Nothing to configure. >>

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:06AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > You can add SeaMonkey config manually if you want, but you will have to > track the changes after that. >     $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser > x-www-browser /your/path/to/seamonkey 100 I

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.04.2019 2:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2019 01:14 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 15.04.2019 18:09, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file. >>> I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting >>> Properties, and

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2019 01:14 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 15.04.2019 18:09, Richard Owlett wrote: Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file. I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting Properties, and setting preferred application. That solved almost all my

Re: Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.04.2019 18:09, Richard Owlett wrote: > Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file. > I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting Properties, > and setting preferred application. > > That solved almost all my problems. > > The only exception is when using

Stretch with MATE DE - odd new file association problem

2019-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Somehow I had messed up preferred application to open a file. I fixed by selecting a file of appropriate type, selecting Properties, and setting preferred application. That solved almost all my problems. The only exception is when using Synaptic. When I click on "Visit Homepage" it insists on