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Description of problem: Thunar does not open default application when file is double clicked. Right clicking and selecting default application works but double left clicking does not. The busy mouse courser comes up but does nothing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Thunar-1.3.0-4.fc16.i686 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Double click on a file (text for example) Actual results: The busy mouse courser comes up but does nothing. Expected results: When double clicking on a text file for example gedit should open the file. Additional info:
This happens all the time on any files? Can you quit any Thunar sessions, confirm it's not running (ps aux | grep Thunar), then start it manually from a Terminal and see if it spews any debugging or errors?
I can't seem to reproduce it every instance today. It did it once earlier but won't do it for me now. I did kill Thunar --daemon and tried it without it and double clicking without the daemon running works as expected. Then I reloaded the daemon and tried it again and it still works. I see no debug in the terminal it runs clean. I have noticed that it is only text files that default to gedit. If I double click on an odt it opens them with libreoffice without event, a pdf opens in document viewer without event and archives open with file roller. I'll keep an eye on it and pass on the exact details if it happens again.
Can you please check what file type this acutually is and then look up what is supposed to open it? $ file -i apt-packages.txt apt-packages.txt: text/plain; charset=us-ascii As you see it's text/plain. $ grep text/plain ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list text/plain=fedora-geany.desktop;fedora-leafpad.desktop; As you can see I use geany as default and leafpad ad alternative. Not lets make sure that the default "fedora-geany.desktop" file is in place: $ find /usr/share/applications/ ~/.local/share/applications/ -name fedora-geany.desktop /usr/share/applications/fedora-geany.desktop Yes, it's there.
I'm experiencing this problem with Gedit and Thunar. gedit-3.2.6-1.fc16.x86_64 Thunar-1.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64 When, from Thunar, I try double clicking to open a text file, nothing happens. On the next immediate attempt, the file opens in Gedit, but the mouse turns into a spinning wheel for a while. On the other hand, if i select the file, right click, and select "Open with 'gedit'" the file opens immediately but the mouse sometimes (always?) turns into a spinning wheel. No problems whatsoever opening text files from Pcmanfm, which makes me think that there's something wrong with Thunar.
Can you do the same as I did in comment 3 and post the output here?
$ file -i test.txt test.txt: text/plain; charset=us-ascii $ grep text/plain ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list text/plain=gedit.desktop
I get a spinning wheel sometimes when I open JPEG images from Thunar too, when the default image application is set to eog (Eye of GNOME).
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