Around Fedora 27, Nautilus stopped being able to open files with double click. It took me a very long time to figure out what was going on, but it turns out it was this bug:
However, one commenter on the Fedora bug pointed out that "exo-0.6.2-3.fc16 is still taking the mime types from the X-XFCE-MimeType key and adding them to the [Added Associations] section of ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list". This was still happening on a later version of exo (I don't know which version exactly, but maybe 0.10.x, since Nautilus broke for me around Fedora 27).
There are a few things that need to be fixed:
(1) exo needs to stop inserting these entries in mimeapps.list , if it is still inserting them
(2) exo needs to remove these entries from mimeapps.list, if they are found there, so that upgrading exo is enough to fix a broken system.
(3) One commenter on the Fedora bug pointed out that "I only noticed because some part of KDE was complaining about some lists in mimeapps.list not ending with ';' " -- exo needs to add a trailing ';' if it does need to add (corrected) lines to mimeapps.list.
Around Fedora 27, Nautilus stopped being able to open files with double click. It took me a very long time to figure out what was going on, but it turns out it was this bug:
[Fedora bug]: https:/ /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=674321 /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ exo/+bug/ 956255
[Ubuntu bug]: https:/
I had to remove the following entries from ~/.local/ share/applicati ons/mimeapps. list , in the "[Added Associations]" section:
x-scheme- handler/ http=exo- web-browser. desktop handler/ https=exo- web-browser. desktop handler/ file=exo- file-manager. desktop handler/ trash=exo- file-manager. desktop handler/ mailto= exo-mail- reader. desktop;
x-scheme-
x-scheme-
x-scheme-
x-scheme-
According to the Ubuntu bug, the core problem was fixed in this commit:
https:/ /git.xfce. org/xfce/ exo/commit/ ?id=b74caf97642 ae2bf00a7754a5f b193f695b6f3d4
However, one commenter on the Fedora bug pointed out that "exo-0.6.2-3.fc16 is still taking the mime types from the X-XFCE-MimeType key and adding them to the [Added Associations] section of ~/.local/ share/applicati ons/mimeapps. list". This was still happening on a later version of exo (I don't know which version exactly, but maybe 0.10.x, since Nautilus broke for me around Fedora 27).
There are a few things that need to be fixed:
(1) exo needs to stop inserting these entries in mimeapps.list , if it is still inserting them
(2) exo needs to remove these entries from mimeapps.list, if they are found there, so that upgrading exo is enough to fix a broken system.
(3) One commenter on the Fedora bug pointed out that "I only noticed because some part of KDE was complaining about some lists in mimeapps.list not ending with ';' " -- exo needs to add a trailing ';' if it does need to add (corrected) lines to mimeapps.list.