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  1. Bug #667071
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 667071

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote : Re: archive manager

Hi,
  The workaround in (10) didn't work for me.

The other observation is that

xdg-open /

triggers the same problem.

(Which makes me wonder if it's related to the breakage in bug 670128)

But xdg-open is calling gvfs-open, and gvfs-open / triggers the same
I can see that gvfs-open has read /usr/share/applications/exo-file-manager.desktop and that tells it to
run

exo-open --launch FileManager filename

(that's from exo-utils, part of xfce)

If I run exo-preferred-applications I can see that File Manager is set to evince (!); if I flick that to Nautilus it opens.

(Although leaves a straggling window saying it's opening it even though it did).

Has everyone else who has this problem also got exo-utils installed?
I would have thought that we'd want xfce stuff to co-exist with a gnome desktop without getting in eachothers way.

Dave

Dave