Open <x> folder not working on Linux about downlords-faf-client HOT 6 CLOSED

On linux we use xdg-open for show files so if you don't have this it won't work. Do you have xdg-open in your distribution?

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I do indeed

@archbird:~$ xdg-open --version
xdg-open 1.1.3+

Edit: the zsh prompt gets butchered by github

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The code for linux is

//Might not work on all linux distros but let's give it a try
if (Files.isRegularFile(path)) {
  path = path.getParent();
}
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("xdg-open", path.toAbsolutePath().toString());
builder.start();

Unfortunately I can't test it since I don't have a linux machine. So this will have to wait until some linux developer can replicate it.

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You can close this then, I know exactly what the bug is and its not yours.

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Could you comment here with what it is so others could find it later as well if it affects them.

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This is a braindead retarded bug that crops up from time to time when you update a python package which is able to open a directory. For some reason, some dev over there (possibly pip) has decided that one of sane the package update steps is to nuke your mimeapps.list and flood your .local/share/applications/ directory with .desktop files that advertise that package as default for the inode/directory type.

On Arch based distros this is shitemare to solve since if you do xdg-mime query default inode/directory it can still show the correct file manager but because the xdg-open priority list is now fucked it prefers the wrong thing.

2 shitty solutions all over the net:

1. Dont use shitty python packages
2. Have everyone migrate to gvfs-open because fuck most distros and users of non-gnome software.

Alternatively, have fun trying to find what python git/datavis/helper package has shipped these stupid .desktop files because this often cant be fixed by a simple

xdg-mime default org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop inode/directory

Edit: For when someone runs into this and xdg-open and xdg-mime arent happy;

XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-mime query default inode/directory

Will give you the list of files xdg-open is considering in what order, in my case,

 .local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

was the culprit

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