Wednesday, September 4, 2013
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Sometimes you have a better file manager and want to set it default. You can do it by change a line of text in a file called defaults.list in Ubuntu.
Open the terminal by Ctrl + Alt + Del
Edit defaults.list file (I use VIM) with root permission:
sudo vim /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
Search the line:
inode/directory=<file-manager-name>.desktop
<file-manager-name> is your preferred file manager name
For example:
Dolphin: kde4/dolphin.desktop
Thunar: Thunar.desktop
Save the file
Note: because of the read-only attribute, you must force to save the file. In VIM, I use :w!
How to set default file manager in Ubuntu
Sometimes you have a better file manager and want to set it default. You can do it by change a line of text in a file called defaults.list in Ubuntu.
Open the terminal by Ctrl + Alt + Del
Edit defaults.list file (I use VIM) with root permission:
sudo vim /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
Search the line:
inode/directory=<file-manager-name>.desktop
<file-manager-name> is your preferred file manager name
For example:
Dolphin: kde4/dolphin.desktop
Thunar: Thunar.desktop
Save the file
Note: because of the read-only attribute, you must force to save the file. In VIM, I use :w!
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