GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 546306
Places -> Home/Desktop/Documents/etc opens up audacious instead of nautilus
Last modified: 2009-06-18 15:40:51 UTC
Please describe the problem: I realize that I probably changed something to cause this, but I've no idea what. When I use the Places menu to try and open my Home dir or Documents or Pictures or Music or whatever dirs, audacious (the music player) opens instead. Some of the menu entries will open audacious with my entire music library in the playlist and start playing. Others will open audacious' file finder dialog. Steps to reproduce: 1. In gnome, select Places then Home Folder Actual results: audacious is launched with the ENTIRE contents of my Music dir loaded and begins playing Expected results: Nautilus should open to my Home directory Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Running Fedora 9 x86_64 with livna repo enabled.
Found it in the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list That file contained ONLY the following two lines: [Added Associations] inode/directory=fedora-audacious.desktop; Not sure what put those there. I removed the file and now my Places menu items work in nautilus as expected. I'll have to see what happens when I log out/in if something gets recreated.
That's not a bug in GNOME, then. That's a bug in whatever put this configuration in place.
Actually, nautilus is what created this entry. If I browse my Music directory in nautilus, and decide I want to play the entire contents of, for example, my Beatles directory, I right-click on that Beatles directory, select "Open with Other Application" and select audacious. This then creates the entry in that mimeapps.list file (creating the file as well if it doesn't exist). nautilus interprets the selection as what I desire for opening ALL folders going forward. I don't think this is a good assumption. I just want to open this one folder in audacious this one time.
See discussion in bug 569668. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 569668 ***