Running Ubuntu; if I go to Places - $MOSTANYCHOICE (e.g., Home Folder),
lo! My vlc starts up, and I'm watching Ghostbusters. And, while
Ghostbusters is not to be sneered at, it's unlikely to offer the directory
listing for which I'm looking.
As I'd prefer to not blow away *all* my settings, I
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Running Ubuntu; if I go to Places - $MOSTANYCHOICE (e.g., Home Folder),
lo! My vlc starts up, and I'm watching Ghostbusters. And, while
Ghostbusters is not to be sneered at, it's unlikely to offer the directory
listing for
Ken,
I had a similar experience recently with places opening mplayer
in the manner in which you describe for vlc.
It is as you suspected a file association issue, or at least it was
in my case.
You basically can fix it by manually starting nautilus and using
Actually, my friend, Lara, nailed it (the Google fu is strong with her):
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list had an entry thusly:
inode/directory=vlc.desktop;
I'm guessing this happened when I tried to run VLC on a DVD's hierarchy.
She found the link here:
Let me win...
:P
Have no mercy. Losing is educational.
On 4/22/2011 11:21 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Actually, my friend, Lara, nailed it (the Google fu is strong with her):
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list had an entry thusly:
inode/directory=vlc.desktop;
I'm guessing this
