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 […]
Using Kdiff3 tool as example action to add to the SendTo menu of Thunar. Create the following file in ~/.local/share/Thunar/sendto and name it <whatever>.desktop (I named mine ‘kdiff3.desktop’) : # kdiff3.desktop – Integrate kdiff3 into # the “Send To” menu. [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 TryExec=kdiff3 Exec=kdiff3 %F Icon=kdiff3 Name=Kdiff3 # MimeType=text/plain; The MimeType […]
I struggled for a about an hour today with S-kp-home trying to bind it to something that would work properly in emacs (i.e select the text between cursor and start of line) before I figured out that although the problem manifested itself in Emacs, it is really due to the way Xwindows maps the Shift+Home/End… […]
This was something which I found to be quite annoying on the Xfce Desktop Environment version 4 (4.4.3), it probably is the same for some other Xfce versions too… The XFCE Window Manager defines the so called global Window shortcuts, meaning that when this key-combo shortcut is pressed, no matter where (from which application), the […]