"Show file" not open file manager

Mario Jose

Hi all,
I am using Zotero 4 (standalone and plugin) on GNU/Debian. When I select some reference and right-click to "Show file", Zotero open my mp3 player (Audacious). If I uninstall Audaciou, Zotero open correctly my file manager (Dolphin). I try find confs to correct this, but I not found.
Anyone do know how to fix this?
Best regards,
Mario

dstillman

See my response here for more details: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/32009/right-click-show-file-opens-image-viewer-on-text-files-and-other-types/

Mario Jose

Hi Dan,

I find conf to fix this.

When I install Audaciou, it change the follow line in "/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache"

inode/directory=audacious.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-gwenview.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;

I set the first app to dolphin and work fine here.

The confs in GNU/Linux sometimes is crazy, but it is better that others O$.

Best regards,

Mario

notGaudi

I had the same problem with Zotero 4.0.22 and KDE 4.14.0. I`ve simply disassociated *.pdf and GIMP in file settings, so now this function works correctly.

stervbo

I had the same problem: 'Show file' would open Gwenview and I followed the suggestion of Mario Jose. It worked like a charm!

M B

You can try open about:config and change value in
extensions.zotero.fallbackLauncher.unix
from /usr/bin/xdg-open
to kde-open gnome-open or exo-open

How to automatize in scripts? Some suggestions:
if environement variable $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE , or $DESKTOP_SESSION=kde-plasma or kde-plasma-safe or kde, you should use kde-open

if $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=gnome or GNOME or Unity, or $DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome, you should use gnome-open

if $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE , you should try exo-open.

But for me it seems that this does not help at the moment – I must change line in $HOME folder file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache