On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:38:19 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> When I select a file and: > > - double-click > - hit RET > - hit C-o > - select "Open with <the-default-application>" in the menu > > Nautilus only refreshes the current window, placing the selected file > at the top and nothing else (where I expect that it should launch the > application, passing to it the selected file name). > > The only way I found to convince Nautilus to really pass those files > to the corresponding application is to select "Open with other > application" and then to select the desired (usually the default) > application in the dialog box. > > This is on a Debian stable machine where this operation used to work > just fine until very recently (maybe it changed when I installed the > 10.1 update? I'm not sure if it's correlated but it's possible). > > Any idea what might be going on, how to investigate, or how to fix it? Regression? Does this look familiar? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874003 About two years ago. It seems to involve something a bit subtle in the user profile, possibly connected with Xfce. -- Joe
