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[Locked] Changing File Manager for shortcuts
uudruid74 English 4 brianw [Read]
22 June 2014 à 04:06

uudruid74, Saturday 21 June 2014 à 07:36


Subscription date : 21 June 2014
Messages : 5
I'm using Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with Cairo-Dock as the session and compiz as the window manager - no desktop. My main access to the file manager is via the ShortCuts applet since I don't have icons on the desktop (actually, they are there as various window managers try to install them, but the compiz wallpaper module overwrites them).

I have a weird issue where programs are very slow to start. I haven't traced out why, but its only X programs. The delay is about 8 seconds to get a file manager window open! The easiest way around it is to use the --daemon mode of the file manager. Nautilus seems to be loading in daemon mode and it looks prettier than thunar, so I'd like to switch. If I can get ShortCuts applet to load Nautilus instead of Thunar, then it will display fast since its already loaded. How can I set this? I can't figure out how it decides what file manager to run and its not easily changeable. Please help!

On another issue - and this is likely not Cairo-dock's fault, but I occasionally have my whole desktop dim (unresponsive notification). Top shows ALL my X apps, including dbus, window decorator, ibus, applets, etc, all at maximum CPU usage. This takes about 15-20 seconds to clear so I can use my system again. It only happens when the gnome-settings-daemon is running. I believe its only when the daemon activates certain GTK themes, and my favorite seems to trigger this bug pretty often (Numix with the dark theme turned on in the tweak tool and the highlight color changed to blue ... but stock Numix and Orion both do it). If anyone has a similar problem, please email me. I figure people here might have a similar set-up (using Cairo-Dock without another Desktop).

Thank you,
Evan

brianw, Saturday 21 June 2014 à 13:43


Subscription date : 25 April 2012
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Hello, thank you for bringing this information forward and for using cairo-dock.

The shortcuts applet does not call a file manager directly but uses gvfs to call the default file manager. In XFCE (I think Ubuntu Studio uses xfce) the file manager can be set by opening the settings manager and selecting preferred applications on the utilities tab.

More information on this and related items can be found here: http://www.glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Recurrents%20problems&lang=en#22-Trash applet tries to open Nautilus in Xfce

uudruid74, Saturday 21 June 2014 à 18:04


Subscription date : 21 June 2014
Messages : 5
Wow. I was looking all over in the file-system ... even tried looking at binaries with "strings". I'm an ex-Unix Admin and I'm used to doing things the hard way. It never occured to me to just look in the control panel! Too easy, and now I feel stupid.

Now, I just need to figure out why my system starts to throw messages all over the place bring itself to its knees. That will be harder to diagnose.

Thanks for the help
<<hides head in shame>>

uudruid74, Sunday 22 June 2014 à 01:15


Subscription date : 21 June 2014
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LOL! The rest of my problems were due to the Ubuntu Studio installer deciding that 1300+ fonts would be cool! For some reason it makes all the apps reload all the fonts at random intervals. Now I feel really stupid having a million fonts. Definately no problems with Cairo-dock or Compiz. This machine is incredibly fast now. I should have realized that was the issue when I saw how many fonts were there. Oops!

brianw, Sunday 22 June 2014 à 04:06


Subscription date : 25 April 2012
Messages : 270
uudruid74 :
LOL! The rest of my problems were due to the Ubuntu Studio installer deciding that 1300+ fonts would be cool! For some reason it makes all the apps reload all the fonts at random intervals. Now I feel really stupid having a million fonts. Definately no problems with Cairo-dock or Compiz. This machine is incredibly fast now. I should have realized that was the issue when I saw how many fonts were there. Oops!


It is good that you have things worked out and it also helps others.

Fonts have been an issue for a very long time (IMHO). There has always been a push for more fonts that most people never use and implementing those fonts, some restricted and some open, has been "touchy" to say the least. Your "real world example" demonstrates seemingly innocent things can cause real issues.

And thank you for helping to make cairo-dock better.

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[Locked] Changing File Manager for shortcuts
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22 June 2014 à 04:06


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