`gio open` opens all files and directories in web browser
Running gio open
to open a file or directory, or trying e.g. to open a downloaded file in Firefox results in it opening in Firefox. This seems to be regardless of which applications are registered to open a file or directory. This happens when there is no web browser registered to open a file or directory.
glib/gio version: 2.62.4
Distro: Antergos w/ Arch repositories only
Example:
Running gio info /home/myrkvi/
returns:
display name: myrkvi
edit name: myrkvi
name: myrkvi
type: directory
size: 20480
uri: file:///home/myrkvi
attributes:
standard::type: 2
standard::name: myrkvi
standard::display-name: myrkvi
standard::edit-name: myrkvi
standard::copy-name: myrkvi
standard::icon: user-home, user-home-symbolic
standard::content-type: inode/directory
standard::fast-content-type: inode/directory
standard::size: 20480
standard::allocated-size: 20480
standard::symbolic-icon: user-home-symbolic, user-home
etag::value: 1578417203:790692
id::file: l2083:70516737
id::filesystem: l2083
access::can-read: TRUE
access::can-write: TRUE
access::can-execute: TRUE
access::can-delete: FALSE
access::can-trash: FALSE
access::can-rename: FALSE
time::modified: 1578417203
time::modified-usec: 790692
time::access: 1578417205
time::access-usec: 487349
time::changed: 1578417203
time::changed-usec: 790692
unix::device: 2083
unix::inode: 70516737
unix::mode: 16832
unix::nlink: 229
unix::uid: 1000
unix::gid: 985
unix::rdev: 0
unix::block-size: 4096
unix::blocks: 40
owner::user: myrkvi
owner::user-real: Vegard Berg
owner::group: users
metadata::nautilus-list-view-sort-column: name
metadata::nautilus-list-view-sort-reversed: false
metadata::nemo-icon-view-auto-layout: true
metadata::nemo-icon-view-tighter-layout: false
with content-type showing as inode/directory
.
Runnig gio mime inode/directory
yields:
Default application for “inode/directory”: exo-file-manager.desktop
Registered applications:
exo-file-manager.desktop
org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
org.xfce.Catfish.desktop
pcmanfm.desktop
ranger.desktop
thunar.desktop
Recommended applications:
exo-file-manager.desktop
org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop
org.xfce.Catfish.desktop
pcmanfm.desktop
ranger.desktop
thunar.desktop
If I then try to open the directory, it opens in Firefox. Expected behaviour is that it should use exo-file-manager.desktop
, which in turn opens PCManFm.
Edited by Vegard Berg