Problems with Mate

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bill wrote:
>On 10/13/19 9:55 PM, Little Girl wrote:
>> Bill wrote:
  
>> Strange. Where are you when you mount the partition and how are you
>> mounting it?

>WS=> I dual boot and the partition is the Windows partition.  It
>is mounted by using the GUI at Places / 512 GB partition and there
>then appears an icon on the desktop and Firefox automatically opens
>to display the contents.  By default, it should be the Caja file
>manager.

Agreed. Something got messed up.

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

>WS=> actually, Firefox opens automatically (like Caja should) and I
>have to close Firefox and open Caja by Right clicking on the icon
>and selection "Open with Caja".

Okay.

>> 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.

>WS=> That works when I explicitly click on the icon but when the   
>partition is opened the first time, Firefox is still opened
>automatically.

Even after following those steps and making sure the check is in the
box?
  
>>> 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.

>WS=>No I'm using "Places" in the Menu bar for the  Mate desktop.

Yes. Changing that to "Tree" should display Trash in the left pane
and clicking it on the left should open it in the right pane in 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.

>WS=> I tried that.  There is no way to change from Firefox to the
>Caja file manager. This is actually even more troubling than the
>partition problem because Firefox does not even display what is in
>"trash" and there seems no way to open trash to recover a file I
>accidentally deleted.

Ah, I think I understand. In other words, Firefox is opening the
trash instead of Caja and isn't doing it correctly. Definitely not
good.

>> 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?  
>
>WS=> Does anybody know what the name of the configuration file is?
>I am capable enough to make the necessary corrections to correct the
>problem.

Just curious, but what do you get when you run this command:

gvfs-mime --query inode/directory

I get this:

	Default application for 'inode/directory':
	caja-folder-handler.desktop Registered applications:
		clamtk.desktop
		caja-folder-handler.desktop
	Recommended applications:
		clamtk.desktop
		caja-folder-handler.desktop

I suspect you won't be seeing caja-folder-handler.desktop when you
run it and will probably be seeing Firefox in there.

Either way, this should help, because the person was having the same
issue you're having:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1877164

The instructions aren't for Ubuntu MATE, though, so you'll want to
replace nautilus.desktop with caja.desktop and also replace
nautilus-folder-handler.desktop with caja-folder-handler.desktop when
trying the fix. Here's hoping this does it.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.