[ubuntu-za] Xubuntu and Nautilus

[Neil Oosthuizen]

On 12/10/2012 09:52 AM, Bill Cairns wrote:
> Thanks Neil,
>
> Unfortunately (as far as I can see) this does just the opposite of
> what I want to do - it makes Thunar the default file manager under
> Unity - I want to make Nautilus the default file manager under Xfce,
> The instructions on the page don't seem (to me) to be reversible and
> some of them are just not applicable (for instance I do not have a
> ~/.local/share/applications/defaults file).
>
> Somehow Thunar is embedded in the Xfce desktop. I have nautilus as the
> default file manager when I do exo-preferred-applications. But when I
> click on the Hone or File System icons on the Xubuntu desktop, it is
> Thunar that comes up. When I insert a stick, it is Thunar that comes
> up.
>
> Puzzled,
>    Bill
>
>

Ah, ok... this what happens when on the phone and not a PC >.<

Here is another answer to the question - 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/74534/set-nautilus-as-default-file-manager-in-xubuntu 
and again the same solution pops up here - 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/47208/how-to-stop-thunar-being-default-file-browser/66168#66168

Perhaps give it a try...


Neil