mimetype? [SOLVED]

[powdered.toast.man]

Some applications (Clementine, Qmmp) won't open a file browser to select a folder for Music Library or to add to a playlist . I installed Nautilus, but the apps still just crash and close.

I can open files with these apps from the file browser, however, so maybe its not a mimetype problem.

I am running "Riders on the Storm" RC1 Razor-QT.

[devil]

As far as I remember clementine, it uses a collection scanner like amarok. are you saying, you cannot navigate to your collection?


greetz
devil

[powdered.toast.man]

I guess I'm saying I can't navigate to any file or folder with any application, including Razor Preferences. Qmmp seems to be my default "open with" for all folders.

EDIT
sorry it took so long for me to reply. I never got notified of your post.

[powdered.toast.man]

Maybe I'm not being clear enough.

I installed siduction 2012.2.0~rc1 razor-qt. It included only Beesoft Commander (Qt filemanger) not Dolphin or Nautilus or Pcmanfm. There is no context menu for mimetype choices in Beesoft Commander.

The only way to open a video file with VLC or an image file with Nomacs is to open these applications first then browse my home directory from the applications file menu.

When I try that, the application closes. Virtually all of the applications that came with installation or that I installed afterwards, exhibit this behaviour.

I tried installing Nautilus and Dolphin. While they both allow me to right-click on a file to open it with an application, those applications still close when I try to open another file from within their own menus.

I tried installing KDE System Settings to settings and setting Dolphin as my default file manager. This didn't work right away until I also installed kdebase-workspace. Then the applications could open files. However razor-qt preferences still could not open Dolphin to select a wallpaper or menu file or a default terminal.

From "Default Applications" in KDE System Settings:

Here you can configure your default file manager. The entries in the K menu and all KDE applications in which you can open folders will use this file manager.

IMHO this needs to be implemented in siduction 2012.2.0-razor-qt release.

[devil]

IMHO this needs to be implemented in siduction 2012.2.0-razor-qt release.

For sure not. Why would KDE System settings be installed in a desktop environment that avoids KDE?

I will try to reproduce what you are saying.

greetz
devil

[powdered.toast.man]

I didn't mean to say add KDE System Settings. There is already a Razor-QT-session preference for default apps, but there needs to be some way to open files with preferred applications.

Qtfm is capable of doing this and might be an alternative for Beesoft Commander.

My problem might not be reproducable, since it also occurs when I am just running openbox. I wouldn't think that is normal behaviour for that window manager, I also followed the manual instructions and installed nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-dkms.

I was thinking of completely re-installing the OS without any additional software to see if I can reproduce the issue.

[powdered.toast.man]

after re-installing the issue was resolved and after

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apt-get dist-upgrade
it remains resolved.
I'm guessing installing the proprietary nvidia driver must have had something to do with my problem.

So............... solved, until I break it again.

EDIT

just re-installed proprietary nvidia driver and apps are still working.

[dibl]

I'm guessing installing the proprietary nvidia driver must have had something to do with my problem.

If you are downloading and manually installing the nvidia driver, you should try the method in the siduction manual -- once you've got it set up, you're done messing with it for a long time, even with new driver versions and new kernel versions coming in.