Issues with file manager on Linux

[Inception9269]

I've been using PopOS for awhile now, with KDE being the desktop environment that I'm currently using (no matter which distro I use, and the environments I've played around with, KDE is the one I gravitate to the most).

 

I don't like Gnome, and I never cared for the Cosmic desktop environment that PopOS uses, and I don't really care for any of gnomes applications. I like the dolphin manager that comes with KDE, with it working the best for me, but an annoyance that I'm dealing with, that I hope someone can give me some advice on, is that even though I have Dolphin set in the Default Applications, if I ever do something that will cause the file manager to open up, such as downloading a file through my browser (am using Firefox) or opening the downloaded file's location from my browser it will always open it in the gnome file manager, which I'm not fond of at all.

 

Am hoping someone knows a way to solve this problem, where any time the file manager is called upon, it will use Dolphin, and nothing else.

[Guest]

Open dconf-editor and change whats listed there to Dolphin, as external programs look here first,

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20 minutes ago, Thomas4 said:

Open dconf-editor and change whats listed there to Dolphin, as external programs look here first,

I legit have no clue what I'm supposed to look for in that.

Also the thing won't open at all when using KDE, and I have to change my session to the PopOS one for the application to open.

[Guest]

OK, I see your problem, POP OS is written in Gnome which does not work well with others.

The best solution is to reformat the drive and install KDENeon as your OS. Like Pop OS it's another fork of Ubuntu.

but, I would try running as from a USB stick for a few days before doing this to find if it works for you and your hardware.

 

But if you do decide to reformat, remember that you'll lose all settings, applications and any other information - picture, music, documents, etc. that you don't haven't  already saved somewhere not on your computer.

 

What's happening is the Firefox is reading the defaults from Pop instead of your Desktop's preferences.

 

 

[Guest]

Firefox is a GTK application that uses a GTK File Dialog. You can try using xdg-desktop-portal to work around this.
 

sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-kde xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
sudo sh -c "echo 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1' >> /etc/environment"
sudo reboot now

 

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1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

Firefox is a GTK application that uses a GTK File Dialog. You can try using xdg-desktop-portal to work around this.
 

sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-kde xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
sudo sh -c "echo 'GTK_USE_PORTAL=1' >> /etc/environment"
sudo reboot now

 

I ran this, but not sure what's supposed to do after.

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2 hours ago, Thomas4 said:

OK, I see your problem, POP OS is written in Gnome which does not work well with others.

The best solution is to reformat the drive and install KDENeon as your OS. Like Pop OS it's another fork of Ubuntu.

but, I would try running as from a USB stick for a few days before doing this to find if it works for you and your hardware.

 

But if you do decide to reformat, remember that you'll lose all settings, applications and any other information - picture, music, documents, etc. that you don't haven't  already saved somewhere not on your computer.

 

What's happening is the Firefox is reading the defaults from Pop instead of your Desktop's preferences.

 

 

I've watched some videos on KDE Neon, and honestly it doesn't really impress me much.

 

Realistically it's not a dealbreaker for me with this issue, it's just something I'd prefer to change if possible. With this pc I'm using being focused mainly on gaming, I found PopOS to work the best for me. I ran Fedora and Nobara, which is built on Fedora, for awhile but had random issues that wouldn't go away no matter what I did. I decided to try out Arch Linux, and ran it for a couple of days and thought it was pretty neat, but I'm not advanced enough to get the most out of it. I did play around with Manjaro, and thought that one was a good experience and was pretty alright, but one of the big things for me is being able to use Steam tinker launch tools so I can run trainers for games, and of all the distros I've tried, PopOS seems to be the only one that runs it flawlessly.

 

I also tried out SteamOS out of curiosity, but that turned out to be nothing more than a wet fart, which I'm assuming was because of my Nvidia gpu. I think I'll stick with PopOS for the time being, but I really did like what I saw with Arch distros. I've seen a few videos on EndeavourOS, and I think that'd probably be a Arch distro I'd like to play around with.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Inception9269 said:

I've watched some videos on KDE Neon, and honestly it doesn't really impress me much.

It's Ubuntu LTS with KDE Plasma maintained by the KDE Plasma Team. That's it's main attraction.

 

2 hours ago, Inception9269 said:

I ran this, but not sure what's supposed to do after.

GTK Applications that support xdg-desktop-portal should use KDE components for things like the file picker.

Firefox is one of them, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/firefox#KDE_integration

 

6 hours ago, Inception9269 said:

 if I ever do something that will cause the file manager to open up, such as downloading a file through my browser (am using Firefox) or opening the downloaded file's location from my browser it will always open it in the gnome file manager, which I'm not fond of at all.

I also misread this, but the above is still useful.

 

Set dolphin as the default xdg mime ssociation for directories

xdg-mime default org.kde.dolphin.desktop x-scheme-handler/file

 

Switch to your GNOME session and change the default applications. to your preferred ones, It should affect GTK apps in your KDE session. Assuming GNOME is still installed.
 

Edited October 16, 2022 by Nayr438
Wrong mime assocation for xdg-open

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2 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

It's Ubuntu LTS with KDE Plasma maintained by the KDE Plasma Team. That's it's main attraction.

 

GTK Applications that support xdg-desktop-portal should use KDE components for things like the file picker.

Firefox is one of them, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/firefox#KDE_integration

 

I also misread this, but the above is still useful.

 

Set dolphin as the default xdg mime ssociation for directories

xdg-mime default org.kde.dolphin.desktop x-scheme-handler/file

 

Switch to your GNOME session and change the default applications. to your preferred ones, It should affect GTK apps in your KDE session. Assuming GNOME is still installed.
 

I followed all that, and the most I was able to get is that when I save a file or whatever it will open up Dolphin, but for opening the file location from browser it still opens the gnome file manager.

 

Likely just gonna have to accept that this is how it is. I just went back to my PopOS drive after giving EndeavourOS a go, and I really do wish I could stick with an Arch distro, but I just can't get the steamtinkerlaunch tools to work at all on any of the Arch distros I've tried, no matter what I do. I like being able to use trainers in certain games, since they really help speed things up, especially in ones where you'd otherwise have to grind for hours upon hours.

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Inception9269 said:

I just can't get the steamtinkerlaunch tools to work at all on any of the Arch distros I've tried, no matter what I do.

It's in the AUR, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steamtinkerlaunch

pacman -Sy base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/steamtinkerlaunch.git && cd steamtinkerlaunch
makepkg -si

or you can use a AUR helper such as yay,

yay -Sy steamtinkerlaunch

 

Add this to a games Launch Options in Steam.

steamtinkerlaunch %COMMAND%

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16 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

It's in the AUR, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steamtinkerlaunch

pacman -Sy base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/steamtinkerlaunch.git && cd steamtinkerlaunch
makepkg -si

or you can use a AUR helper such as yay,

yay -Sy steamtinkerlaunch

 

Add this to a games Launch Options in Steam.

steamtinkerlaunch %COMMAND%

Legit did all that, but just doesn't work properly. I've tried on Arch, as well as Manjaro, and EndeavourOS last night. Best I can get is the trainer launches but the game never does.

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1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

It's in the AUR, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steamtinkerlaunch

pacman -Sy base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/steamtinkerlaunch.git && cd steamtinkerlaunch
makepkg -si

or you can use a AUR helper such as yay,

yay -Sy steamtinkerlaunch

 

Add this to a games Launch Options in Steam.

steamtinkerlaunch %COMMAND%

I changed my mind, you are now my hero.

 

Was using PopOS til about ten minutes ago, and things were all fine and dandy but I tried following some guy on Youtube's general tech tip (not linus obviously) about using other linux kernels, the one he went on about being Xanmod. I decided to give it ago, since I've tried it earlier this year, and have been able to switch back to original one if things weren't working, but this time though things wouldn't even load past my motherboard screen, the one where you'd mash delete to open bios, or do whatever else.

 

Fortunately I haven't lost anything since I had EndeavourOS still installed on a different ssd, and was able to switch over to it. I then decided to run that first command there, the one with base-devel and git, and sure enough it all works perfectly now as it should, and am able to use trainers in games.

 

Am really glad that issue was resolved, even at the expense of my PopOS install, but since I'm able to commit myself entirely to using Arch now, I'd say it all worked out pretty well.

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17 hours ago, Inception9269 said:

Fortunately I haven't lost anything since I had EndeavourOS still installed on a different ssd, and was able to switch over to it. I then decided to run that first command there, the one with base-devel and git, and sure enough it all works perfectly now as it should, and am able to use trainers in games.

It is best to always make a backup of the files in your user folder. The disk where EndeavourOS was on could have simply failed due to a power outage or due to a technical defect or manufacturing error.

 

You can use rsync, this is the command I use on FreeBSD:

rsync -rvt --delete --exclude-from='/home/user/Documents/FreeBSD/exclude.txt' /home/user /wdc/fs1

 

In the exclude.txt file I have the following content:

linux-browser-installer
VirtualBox VMs
Terraform
venv
.*
Desktop

 

It backs up the most important folders of your user, but not the hidden folders where games can be installed and where you usually don't have any data that needs a back up.