Subject: xfe: Not working as defautl file manager

From: Echedey López Romero <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 19:12:22 +0000

Package: xfe
Version: 1.43.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I am currently using XFE as default and sole file manager on my OS.

However, it seems that no application recognizes it as file manager, not even
Firefox and instead another application able to manage folders is picked.

I guess that the application is not tied to open the mimetype specific for
folders or similar.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:        4
Codename:       chimaera
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: init
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xfe depends on:
ii  libc6           2.31-13+deb11u5
ii  libfontconfig1  2.13.1-4.2
ii  libfox-1.6-0    1.6.57-1
ii  libgcc-s1       10.2.1-6
ii  libstdc++6      10.2.1-6
ii  libx11-6        2:1.7.2-1
ii  libx11-xcb1     2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxcb-util1    0.4.0-1+b1
ii  libxcb1         1.14-3
ii  libxft2         2.3.2-2
ii  xfe-themes      1.43.2-3

Versions of packages xfe recommends:
ii  audacious  4.0.5-1
pn  unar       <none>
ii  xarchiver  1:0.5.4.17-2
ii  xfe-i18n   1.43.2-3
ii  xterm      366-1+deb11u1

Versions of packages xfe suggests:
pn  evince | qpdfview  <none>
pn  meld | fldiff      <none>
pn  rpm                <none>
pn  xine-ui            <none>

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 07:30:18 +0000

Control: tags -1 moreinfo

Echedey,

Thanks for this.

> Severity: normal

In xfe is not a forked package in Devuan and we use Debian's packages directly
without recompilation. So, in principle, bugs about xfe should be reported to
Debian's BTS to be addressed.

However, you need more detail here before you submit this to Debian. What are
you trying to do or expecting to happen?

> I guess that the application is not tied to open the mimetype specific for

That maybe. Have you tried to configure the inode/directory mimetype to open in
xfe? You can probably do that in ~/.mailcap.

Mark

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From: Echedey López Romero <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 18:27:32 +0000

Good afternoon and thank you for your quick reply.

> In xfe is not a forked package in Devuan and we use Debian's packages
> directly without recompilation. So, in principle, bugs about xfe
> should be reported to Debian's BTS to be addressed.
> 
> However, you need more detail here before you submit this to Debian.
> What are you trying to do or expecting to happen? 

Okay, I will likely try that then.

> That maybe. Have you tried to configure the inode/directory mimetype
> to open in xfe? You can probably do that in ~/.mailcap.

I have tried that right now. I didn't try that before because I was not
aware of it (I even tried checking the mimetype for folders before
without finding anything).

It seems to not making any effect in any application.

-- 
Regards,
Echedey López Romero