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When I try and open a file I downloaded in Chromium, it opens in a text editor. (Geany) I click on the arrow in the download bar and select "Show in folder".
I'm using Chromium daily stable and ubuntu 11.04 (although this was a problem previously under ubuntu 10.10) with Gnome.
I'm not sure where the breakdown is happening. In Chromium, ubuntu or maybe Geany has taken something hostage. Anyone having a similar problem?
Thanks,
That's pretty weird and annoying. I hope I can help you a bit into the correct direction :-)
Does it happen with any file type? txt? torrent? mp3?
In ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list there is a list of files to be opened by an application. Have a look with more ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and check if you can find something weird here.
There is a nifty command, mimeopen, that allows you to alter what program should open what file (and that updates the file I mentioned before). It will "guess" what would be the most logical option based on the file you feed it.
Examples:
$ mimeopen -d /home/{your_name}/Documents
Please choose a default application for files of type inode/directory
1) Open Folder (nautilus-folder-handler)
2) Other...
$ mimeopen -d \[Mazui\]_Ore_No_Imouto_-_14_\[SD\]\[7EA51F50\].mkv
Please choose a default application for files of type video/x-matroska
1) Enqueue in SMPlayer (smplayer_enqueue)
2) Movie Player (totem)
3) SMPlayer (smplayer)
4) Banshee (banshee)
5) VLC media player (vlc)
6) Other...
If it is a problem regarding mimetypes, this should solve it.
mimeopen did the trick, however I found it funny that I couldn't find anything weird on the mimeapps.list files I found. I did for f in $(locate mimeapps.list); do sudo egrep "(inode)|(code\.desktop)" $f && echo "-> $f" ; done but nothing stood out. However, after the problem was solved by using mimeopen, I ran the one liner again and it turned out ~/.config/mimeapps.list had been updated with the option I selected. I guess the problem was no option for inode/directory was set. Anyway +1. This helped me a lot, I was going crazy.