Firefox ignores Thunar as default File Manager

Symptom: – Your default File Manager is e.g. Thunar but Firefox uses Nautilus when saving files which is driving you bananas. Solution (for XFCE): 1. Firstly make sure that your default Applilcation for that particular mime type (in this case it is the ‘inode/directory’ mime type) is actually setup properly. Open the “Preferred Applications” applet […]

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Setting up multi web site developer testbeds/sandboxes on localhost

Scenario —————————————————————— You are maintaining several web-sites (site1.com, site2.org, etc…). Having just one web-site at localhost with all files (DocumentRoot) at /var/www/html is not an option for you. You need to be able to test all of them and to access them in a convenient way. Solution Setup apache with Virtual Hosts, give your sites […]

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