firefox open containing folder

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sunday 16 August 2009 11:43 AM, Jud Craft wrote:
> On 08/16/2009 11:05 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Sunday 16 August 2009 14:38:56 Jud Craft wrote:
>>> On 08/16/2009 09:28 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> There is on may machine, as well as an option Open with other
>>>> Application. This is in Gnome.
>>>
>>> Well darn. Are you sure? This is mine. Sorry for the attachment.
>>>
>>> I don't have a "Open With" tab for folders. On my machine (running
>>> GNOME but with some KDE stuff), Firefox's "Open containing folder" pulls
>>> up Konqueror.
>>
>> That's from the folder Properties. The context menu is from
>> right-clicking on
>> the folder, and yes, under kde it does allow Open With, offering
>> things like
>> image-browsers, where you might seriously want it to open at folder
>> level.
>>
>
> But I have also tried GNOME's context-menu Open With..., and although it
> lets me choose between Dolphin/Konqueror/Nautilus, it does NOT change
> the default.
>
> Does the KDE context menu change the default?
>

I don't have Nautilus installed, so I will can only guide you with 
Dolphin and Konqueror.

Dolphin & Konqueror:
1. Right click and select properties
2. In the general tab, just beside the "Type:" field there is a small 
settings icon (looks like a wrench), click that.
3. In the new window, in the "General" tab you can select your 
"Application Preference Order". But afaict this would be a default only 
for KDE.

Nautilus: (strictly from memory)
There should be a tab other than General, Emblems & Permissions in the 
properties dialogue. (maybe Notes, not sure though) Go there and afaicr 
you should be able to pick your preferred app by selecting the 
appropriate radio button from a list. I believe if you change the 
settings here, it changes the global defaults and not just for the 
desktop environment. I might be wrong though.

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Suvayu

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