In Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 the problem is still there
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Title:
Executable files do not launch in 13.04
Status in Default
It's simple to return back old behavior - set dconf setting value:
org.gnome.nautilus.preferences executable-text-activation
to 'ask'
** Also affects: baltix-default-settings
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: baltix-default-settings
Assignee: (unassigned) = Mantas
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:
It's simple to return back old behavior - set dconf setting value:
org.gnome.nautilus.preferences executable-text-activation
to 'ask'
simple? most ubuntu users are afraid to open a Terminal.
however, thanks for the info, but this discussion
It's a completely incorrect behavior always to open executable text
files with Text Editor - lots of executable installers are very big
(200-500Mb) and opening very big files with Text Editor causes freeze of
operating system for several minutes on older computers, try for example
to open
This was an intentional change done by upstream Nautilus developers.
Showing a dialog by default makes problems for users that have external
drives with FAT32-like filesystem, where all files are executable. See:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=72d6c7ce7febd573
Thanks for the references to the upstream process.
Not just the executable bit, but also the file magic (shell script or
ELF) could be parsed to sort out problems.
However, I guess this is not the place for discussing this.
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We should pay attention to this indeed.
This is a radical change for many users acquainted to execute shell scripts or
having them written by friends to fix things.
Believe me, this happens *all the time*.
Changing this behavior without any notice is irresponsible, a very
conservative step that
It is still actual in 13.10 x64. Any attention to this bug?
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Title:
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** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = Confirmed
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Hi,
For me this is a bug, the fix should be applied to the original package,
so 13.04 and future ubuntu installations will not suffer from this.
There is no sense with behavior 'View executable text files' selected by
default for a regular user.
Shellscripts are commonly used to launch other
Just in Nautus File/Preferences/Behaviour Under Executable Files check
Ask me always.
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** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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