From: sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: 39843@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39843: Can't open files through file managers in other DEs and WMs
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:29:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17092a3832b.bdab92fb30395.7999615499543245374@zoho.com> (raw)
I installed the Guix System several months ago and selected GNOME as the Desktop Environment (DE). Recently, however, I decided to fallback to another DE or Window Manager (WM) because of a memory issue in GNOME (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00206.html). So far I have installed XFCE, MATE and sway, but, in all of them I can't open most files using their default file managers: Thunar (XFCE), Caja (MATE), Nautilus (sway [not really a default]).
Performing the following operations to open files from file managers fail for most file types (PNG, PDF, HTML, ODT, SVG, ...):
• Double clicking a file.
• Pressing Enter on a file.
• Right clicking a file and selecting the default app for that kind of file.
• Right clicking a file and selecting another application from a list of suggested apps.
The only kind of file that opens correctly so far is MP3.
Doing the following from a terminal opens files correctly in the default applications:
$ xdg-open path/to/file.png
$ xdg-open path/to/file.pdf
(Note that I never use xdg-utils directly to manipulate MIME types and default apps associations. I leave that to GUIs provided by DEs.)
System Information:
MATE 1.22.0
XFCE 4.14.0
sway 1.2
guix 079ee3b
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 079ee3b5ea7e9e9bf34753df42957d280e8eabc5
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