I had much difficulty changing the default file manager for the “Quick browser” and the “Shortcuts” applets from Cairo-dock. The Internet was no help for once, but find
and grep
were ;)
So, to change the file-manager, you have to edit the ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
file, locate the line starting with “x-scheme-handler/file=
” (although it cannot be bad to also change the line starting with “inode/directory=
”), and change the application to the one you want.
Most available applications can be found in /usr/share/applications
under most Linux distributions. If the application you want does not have its own desktop file, you can create one in ~/.local/share/applications/
, or simply use the exo system from the XFCE project : choose you favourite application with the exo-preferred-applications
command, then choose “exo-file-manager.desktop
” in the fore-mentioned file.