Problems with Mate

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bill wrote:

>I don't know how it happened but whenever I mount a partition,
>Firefox is opened and the contents of the partition is displayed in
>Firefox.

Strange. Where are you when you mount the partition and how are you
mounting it?

>I have to close Firefox and open (display) the partition with Caja
>which is the proper application to brows a partition.

How are you opening the partition with Caja? Are you clicking its icon
on the desktop? If so, try this:

1) Right-click the partition's icon on the desktop.
2) Choose "Open With" from the context menu.
3) Choose "Other Application..." from the sub-menu.
4) Make sure that "Remember this application for "..." files' has a
check in the box with it (sorry, I put ... because I don't currently
have a partition mounted, so I don't remember what it would have
where those dots are).
5) Click on Caja in the window pane.
6) Click the "Open" button.

From now on they should open with Caja.

>Recently, the same problem exists in Trash but there is no way to
>display the contents of trash with Caja (which is the proper program
>to open trash).

You might be using Places view in Caja. You need to be in Tree view
to see it. It's the selector to the left of the location bar near the
top of Caja.

As an alternative, you can add the Trash applet to the panel and
click that to open the trash in Caja. My trash applet lives on the
far right of my panel so I can get at it in an instant.

>I see no way to change this in System/ Preferences/"Preferred 
>applications".  Where can I reset the preferred application from
>Firefox back to Caja, which is the default?

Hopefully my steps above will do it. One last possibility is to go to
Edit --> Preferences -- Media inside of Caja and check all the
settings, especially making sure that "Browse media when inserted"
has a check in the box next to it.

If all else fails, the setting you're after will likely be in a
configuration file somewhere. You could try creating a new user on
your computer and see if that user can mount partitions successfully
without the issue. If so, it's a matter of chasing down which file
needs to be edited. This is definitely odd behavior, though. Can you
remember any changes you've made recently before this happened?

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.