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Re: Firefox / dbus standard file browser application

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:24:47 +0100,
Andreas Ronnquist<mailinglists@gusnan.se> wrote:

>I'm Debian stable, Xfce desktop, and have recently gone from Chromium
>to firefox-esr.
>
>Now I discover that in Firefox, pressing "open containing folder" in
>the "downloaded files" list, opens Thunar, but I want it to open Caja
>which I use as default file browser. 
>
>I have already set it where I have found it in settings, as in
>the "default programs" dialog, and other places, but it seems like
>Firefox uses dbus to get which file browser to use.
>
>Where do I set dbus and Firefox to use Caja instead of Thunar?
>

I finally solved this by simply removing Thunar completely from my
install. Then finally firefox uses caja as wanted.

This unfortunately removes the Xfce task, but I install my needed
packages by hand, so I can live with that.

My problem is basically solved, but I would love to find a way to set
caja as default dbus filemanager without needing to uninstall thunar.

-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailinglists@gusnan.se
andreas@ronnquist.net

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Firefox / dbus standard file browser application Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2021-12-12 17:40 +0100
  Re: Firefox / dbus standard file browser application Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-12 18:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox / dbus standard file browser application Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2021-12-12 18:50 +0100
  Re: Firefox / dbus standard file browser application Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2021-12-24 13:40 +0100

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