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Re: [trinity-users] System Tray Dropbox opens wrong application

From: "Marvin Jones via trinity-users" <trinity-users@...>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 14:59:40 -0600 (MDT)
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Nick Koretsky wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Marvin Jones wrote:
>>
>> Clicking on the System Tray object brings up the Dropbox menu.
>> Then clicking on "Open Dropbox Folder" brings up Kid3 !!!!
>> (kid3: the mp3 sound tag editor)
>
>inode/directory probably
>
>But, i doubt DropBox honors TDE settings. Most probably it uses
>xdg-open. You'll have to play with xdg-mime to set correct default
>file manager

By golly, I believe you pinned it down!  With your guidance
I guessed at what was going on "behind the curtain" and entered:

	$ xdg-open $HOME/Dropbox

and Kid3 opened up in the Dropbox directory!

Now to find out how to strip kid3 from the assignment in xdg-mime --
having never dealt with xdg-open / xdg-mime before.

Thank you!
Jonesy
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