Update KNOWN ISSUES about xdg-utils

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackware-id.org>
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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo 2014-02-15 08:20:52 +07:00
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@ -52,18 +52,9 @@ run applications using root account from caja's context menu anymore.
Mon Jun 10 03:09:28 UTC 2013
If you are encountering problems with Caja (MATE's file manager) opening
directories when clicking on files in certain programs like Dropbox, Skype,
and others, the problem is that xdg-open (part of Slackware's xdg-utils
package) does not recognize the MATE desktop and therefore defaults to opening
the directories in Firefox. Fixes for this have been committed to xdg-utils
upstream development in Git but for now, we must apply a patch to xdg-open and
add some xdg-mime default handlers.
and others, please execute the following steps to fix it:
First, as a root user, back up /usr/bin/xdg-open and then apply the
xdg-open.patch from msb/testing/xdg-utils:
patch -p0 /usr/bin/xdg-open < /location/of/xdg-open.patch
Then, as your regular user, first back up the following file:
As your regular user, back up the following file:
$HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and then enter the next two
commands in a terminal to set the default handler: