Problems with Mate

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 21:55:43 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>If all else fails, the setting you're after will likely be in a
>configuration file somewhere.

Hi,

I don't know what config is relevant, here are a few pointers that might
be from some interest:

$ exo-preferred-applications
For my openbox session it shows "Thunar" as default filemanager.
Actually, if I run
$ xdg-open ~
SpaceFM gets launched, but...
$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
  default-url-scheme-handler    Default handler for URL scheme
  default-web-browser           Default web browser
...doesn't mention a file manager.

However, xdg-mime might be one place to check:

$ xdg-mime query filetype ~
inode/directory
$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory
spacefm-folder-handler.desktop

Searching via gsettings by running

$ for i in $(gsettings list-schemas | grep mate); do gsettings list-recursively $i | grep caja; done
$ for i in $(gsettings list-schemas | grep mate); do gsettings list-recursively $i | grep file; done

I only could find this:

$ gsettings describe org.mate.session.required-components filemanager
The file manager provides the desktop icons and allows you to interact with your saved files.
$ gsettings get org.mate.session.required-components filemanager
'caja'
$ gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components filemanager foo
$ gsettings get org.mate.session.required-components filemanager
'foo'
$ gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components filemanager caja
$ gsettings get org.mate.session.required-components filemanager
'caja'

_Note_, I don't know how something of this does affect Mate, since I've got
Mate installed, but I do not run Mate, let alone that I don't have got gvfs
installed or a desktop at all.

Regards,
Ralf