Recently, I changed my default file manager from Nautilus to Dolphin in Pop!_OS by this command:

xdg-mime default org.kde.dolphin.desktop inode/directory'

and checked again which is the default file manager by executing this command:

xdg-mime query default inode/directory

and I get this output:

org.kde.dolphin.desktop

But, Gogle Chrome still opens Nautilus as the default file manager. I thought of removing it, but doing so will result in potential damage to my system since it is a built-in file. Here is the picture to view the scenario. And, instantly when I browsed that picture, Chrome, as usual, used Nautilus to browse the picture. Anyway to sort out this issue? I just want to sure that all applications use Dolphin as the default file manager without removing Nautilus. Update: As suggested, I also used xdg-open command to find the default file manager the system is using. And I noticed that, Dolphin opens up automatically with the entered file location.

Is there a program (e.g., file manager or PDF viewer) that provides a split view having a folder view and preview pane for PDF documents (ideally with the ability to scroll through the document like the preview pane in Windows 7)? I have 100's of PDF documents that I need to preview rapidly. The file names are not helpful because they are auto-generated. I have used various file managers that generate thumbnails of the first page, but the thumbnails are too small to distinguish between documents. Additionally, it is often desirable to display subsequent pages in the same document. I have tried batch opening the files in Foxit, but the number and size of files typically causes the program to crash. I have tried Krusader, which spawns an external preview Krviewer window. This is not sufficient because it requires opening and closing the Krviewer for every file (similar to simply doing "open with..." an external program), which is slow. Another StackExhange answer appears to show the desired behavior, but it does not appear to function in the installed version for Ubuntu 18.10 (Konqueror Version 5.0.97). See Konqueror and https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=44064.0

I am using thunar file manager. But I have the following "problem". For example I open a pdf file and make some changes and I want to save this change to this file. To do this, I need to find the location of this pdf file and save to its original location. (Then it will ask, do I want to replace the file etc, I want it because I made changes). But it doesn't show the pdf file's location by default. Instead, it shows the last location I opened. How can I fix this? Where is the configuration for this?

As far as I know, when you hit Ctrl+Alt+T, the Linux terminal pops up. However, it opens in the default home directory. I want to set up this shortcut to open in the directory I am currently in at my file manager. Is there any way to do that? I know that if I right-click anywhere on the directory it will give me the option to do that. But I want to do stuff using my keyboard. After doing a web search, I found this post on [How to Open the Terminal to a Specific Directory in Linux](https://www.howtogeek.com/270817/how-to-open-the-terminal-to-a-specific-directory-in-linux/) . But here, the shortcut is mapped to open in another specific directory. So, in turn, it will require me to change the .bashrc file everytime I want to open terminal in a specific directory. My Desktop environment is KDE and I use Dolphin file manager. My terminal emulator is Konsole. Is there any way to achieve what I want? Let me know. Thanks in advance.

Why are there entries of these drivers in the Files > downloads & Files > recent folders? I never do updates by Browser. These entries are from CL updates or GUI POP_SHOP app

I know there is "midnight commander", but it kind of sucks. I am looking for a file manager with lots of features, like "dos navigator", but for linux.

I am working on creating a way to right click on an .eml file, right click, and have python pull two pieces of data from it and paste them into a new xlsx file and auto open the xlsx file. I would try this code on a Linux but I don't know whether it would throw an error I can't fix. ---------- I did the following on a mac and it failed to execute correctly. A method is to have a shellscript in Automator call a .py file which calls a .ipynb file. The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: When I run it on a .eml file I see, “/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/python3: can't open file '/users///Documents/run_notebook1.py': [Errno 1] Operation not permitted” When I use automator to test the script with "get specified finder items" The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “Python path configuration: PYTHONHOME = (not set) PYTHONPATH = (not set) program name = '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/python' isolated = 0 environment = 1 user site = 1 import site = 1 sys._base_executable = '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/python' sys.base_prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.base_exec_prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.platlibdir = 'lib' sys.executable = '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/python' sys.prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.exec_prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.path = [ '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python39.zip', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', ] Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding Python runtime state: core initialized ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings' >Current thread 0x00000001ef41cc00 (most recent call first): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/users//Documents/run_notebook1.py", line 27, in run_notebook(eml_file) File "/users//Documents/run_notebook1.py", line 16, in run_notebook subprocess.run(command, shell=True,check=True) File "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 528, in run raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --inplace --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=-1 /Users//Documents/process_email1.ipynb' returned non-zero exit status 1. Is the answer where is one is supposed to find python39.zip? sys.path = [ '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python39.zip', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload' I ran the .py file in terminal using python3 file.py without problems. Shellscript in Automator (xcode is installed so I don't need to specify python directory): python3 /users//Documents/run_notebook1.py "$1" The .py file: import sys import subprocess import os def run_notebook(eml_file): # Path to the notebook notebook_path = '/Users//Documents/process_email1.ipynb' # Set environment variable os.environ['EML_FILE_PATH'] = eml_file # Command to run the notebook with nbconvert command = f'/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --inplace --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=-1 {notebook_path}' # Run the command subprocess.run(command, shell=True,check=True) # Ensure the file path is passed as argument if len(sys.argv) != 2: print("Usage: python run_notebook.py ") sys.exit(1) # Get the EML file path eml_file = sys.argv # Run the notebook with the EML file path run_notebook(eml_file) The .ipynb file import email import pandas as pd import os from email import policy from email.parser import BytesParser from datetime import datetime import subprocess # Retrieve the EML file path from the environment variable eml_file = os.getenv('EML_FILE_PATH') # Check if the environment variable is set if not eml_file: raise ValueError("EML_FILE_PATH environment variable not set. Please pass the file path.") # Function to extract email file information def extract_eml_info(eml_file): # Parse the .eml file with open(eml_file, 'rb') as f: msg = BytesParser(policy=policy.default).parse(f) # Extract the file name (without extension) file_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(eml_file)) # Extract the most recent date of the email conversation date_str = msg['date'] if date_str: try: email_date = email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime(date_str) except Exception as e: email_date = None else: email_date = None return file_name, email_date # Function to remove timezone information from DataFrame def remove_timezone_from_df(df): # Iterate over all columns for col in df.columns: if pd.api.types.is_datetime64_any_dtype(df[col]): # Remove timezone info if it's a datetime column df[col] = df[col].dt.tz_localize(None) return df # Function to process EML files def process_eml_files(eml_files): # List to store extracted data data = [] for eml_file in eml_files: file_name, email_date = extract_eml_info(eml_file) data.append([file_name, email_date]) # Create DataFrame df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['File Name', 'Most Recent Date']) df = remove_timezone_from_df(df) # Write to Excel output_file = 'output_eml_data.xlsx' df.to_excel(output_file, index=False, engine='openpyxl') print(f"Data written to {output_file}") # Open the newly created Excel file if os.name == 'nt': # For Windows os.startfile(output_file) elif os.name == 'posix': # For macOS/Linux subprocess.call(['open', output_file]) return output_file # Process the provided EML file process_eml_files([eml_file])

I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS inside a Virtual Box on a new Windows 11 host. Clicking on the File Manager on the Desktop (or on related buttons like trash bin or CD) does not show a normal window but just some colored stripes, sometimes blinking. A screenshot is appended. Other applications (terminal, software center, firefox, ...) run without any problem. Can anybody please give me a hint, where this problem may come from?

Nautilus trash do not move file to trash bin on btrfs file system instead it deletes them permanently. Thunar seems to do the same thing, and it seems related to lower level library implementation of the trash bin. I added a new directory ~/.local/share/Trash/ that allows the file manager Nautilus and Thunar to use the trash bin however it works only for deletion that occurs from the same subvolume. Trashing from any other btrfs subvolume or partition triggers permanent deletion. Calibre, the ebook library manager, has a different behavior. My calibre library is on a different subvolume than my home. When I delete books from the Calibre manager, it moves the books to a hidden directory .Trash-1000 under the root of the subvolume where the Calibre library is stored. However this hidden directory is not taken into account by the trash bin therefore the books stay hidden occupying space until I finally discovered them by chance. I don't think Calibre is wrong here because it looks like the way trash bins are managed on external media in ext3/4 file system. Emacs function (delete-file) manage to use the trash bin for different subvolumes and even more amazing it uses the trash bin ~/.local/share/Trash/ for other partition on different disks. So it does the job perfectly. - Do you know a desktop file manager than could work with the trash bin across different btrfs subvolume ? - Do you know a way to prevent some softwares such as calibre to move the files to a hidden spot while you think they are deleted ? - It seems the libraries gvfs and glib/gio are used to manage the trash bin. The softwares I mentioned are all calling different OS functions when it comes to file deletion and the result is not consistent. Anyone has tracks about how trash bins could be managed correctly ? As far as my research goes, the problem seems to be older than 5 years https://bugs.launchpad.net/glib/+bug/1442649 I have been using btrfs for a long time with this downside, but I am curious to see how other people deal with this problem especially since btrfs becomes more popular and seems to be proposed in some linux distribution installer. GNU/Linux 5.15.2-2 Manjaro Gnome: 41.1

Using Debian Buster XFCE. XFCE is married to Thunar, so cannot remove thunar. I would prefer Chromium (or any other app that might choose to open a directory), as when viewing Downloads and clicking 'show in folder', that PCManFM be used to open the folder. Have already: - Set default File Manager in 'Preferred Applications'. - Created a pcmanfm.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications - Edited mimeapps.list in ~/.local/share/applications/ (also ~/.config/) - Did xdg-mime default pcmanfm.desktop inode/directory and confirmed output of xdg-mime query default inode/directory.

I am coming from Windows, where I ran the program MobaXTerm . Essentially I used it as an SSH client (though it has other uses). It has a great feature of showing the files and directories on the left hand side, while showing the terminal on the right side of the screen. This let me execute Linux commands from the terminal as well as easily drag and drop files. My question is: **Is there a program likes this for Linux? One that displays the files/directories on one half and the terminal on the other?** Filezilla doesn't have a terminal I can execute commands on, but I like the drag and drop file usage. PuTTY has a great terminal for command-line execution, but does not have a drag and drop feature that lets me easily view, create, delete, and access files/directories. Thanks! Here is a view of MobaXTerm's SFTP graphical/terminal style that I am looking for: *Note: if this is the wrong place to ask, or I am asking the question wrong, please let me know and I will go to the right source or rephrase my question.*

I would like to configure dolphin to wrap the file name text, instead of putting it on a new line. I have tried to do it through dolphins preferences, but had no success. I find that being able to wrap the text for files, to be more aesthetically pleasing and it also, for me, works better in the browser window. I can't seem to be able to enable this feature though. So I would like to know how to enable text wrap for my labels, and filenames.

..and what are the consequences of the different methods? I have been trying some things with the mounting of an sda2 partition. Mounting in fstab, not mounting in fstab but from the file manager. So far, if I am right, I learned that by mounting in fstab, a partition is mounted automatically at startup. But this mounted partition is not shown under 'devices' in the file manager, whereas the root partition and cdrom for example are shown. When you want to have it under devices in the sidebar, a partition should not be mounted in fstab but by clicking it in the file manager. Is that correct? But which way to go if you want both? Automatically mounted at startup AND being shown in the sidebar of file manager?

What I want to achieve is to have a specific emoji appear next to dotfiles inside file manager "LF" (these can be made visible in the file manager with the "zh" shortcut). In my ~/.config/lf/icons these are the first 9 lines in it:

^\..*	👑  
di	📁  
fi	🗞️  
tw	🤝  
ow	❌  
ln	🔗  
or	❔  
ex	🚀  
*.txt	🗞️

These are additional things I've tried:

1. ^\..*	👑
 2. ^\.*	👑
 3. ^.*	👑
 4. .*	👑
 5. ..*	👑

I've also tried reordering this "icons" file, i.e. putting one of these 5 before or after "fi" and similar filetypes. Is this even possible in "LF"? Other emojis seem to work fine. I'm not sure what kind of information I would need to provide for this kind of issue, but here is some(please correct me and/or suggest additional info I should provide) Distro: Manjaro WM: i3 TE: xfce4-terminal Emojis: Noto Color Emoji

Assuming a [kubernetes container](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/) has bash or similar installed, is it possible to use midnight commander (e.g. shell link, sftp link, ...) to browse the container's filesystem?

The following command opens a file manager to show the directory.

-shell
dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 --print-reply \
 --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 \
 org.freedesktop.FileManager1.ShowItems array:string:"file:///path/to/your/directory" string:""

The problem is that the default file manager seems to be random. My guess is the last updated file manager, because it changed after a file manager was updated. Also, when a file manager is already running, it uses that file manager. Instead of letting dbus-send determine which file manager to use, if I know which file managers are installed, can I set a specific file manager, like Nemo?

I need some guidance. The progress bar does not move at all in the file managers on my Arch Linux system. It stays at zero until the copy has finished. I have tried Nautilus, Nemo, and Thunar, and they all behave the same. I have copied big single files to make sure the progress bar stays for longer, but still, no progress is shown - files copy fine though. I have a Debian system and progress bar shows no problem. Any clue where to look?

I installed [ranger console file manager](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) on Ubuntu. I'd like to view images with it in the console (which I access via JupyterLab), so I also installed caca-utils, which contains img2txt:

sudo apt-get install ranger caca-utils

I launched ranger, selected a file, opened it with img2txt: However, the image doesn't appear until I close ranger: How can I view an image in ranger without closing ranger?

I am writing a shell script that is meant to prompt the user for a file, and since I do not expect the end user of my script to be tech-savvy, rather than starting command line for interaction, I would like the shell to be able to summon the system File manager in a standard way (e.g. using xdg or similar) that would open it in an "Open file..."-like dialog, and output the full or relative path to a file or directory once one was selected. Is there a way to do this either in a Linux or MacOS, or both?

I'm using KDE Plasma, and frequently need to package file sets into tar.gz or zip. This usually requires opening Ark, creating a new file, and working from there, which is a run-around. It would be better if I could right-click in the Dolphin workspace for a directory, go the "Create New..." submenu, and pick this file type out; but as of the moment, the only options are: Folder... Text File... LibreOffice Calc/Draw/Impress/Writer... Link to Location/File/Directory/Application... This feels very much like something I should be able to customize, but I unfortunately have no idea where to look for the option. Does anyone know how I can add additional file types to this menu?