save file from web page using pcmanfm dialogue box not nautilus

kes · 2022-11-30 10:30:05

I'm using openbox. Everything is up to date.

When I hover over a file link on a web page in chrome, right click and choose "save link as" I see this "save as" dialogue box for saving my file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/87dkyknezxegv … e.jpg?dl=0

Can anyone tell me what the application opening the shown "save as" dialogue is?

I'm fairly sure it is not pcmanfm which is the file manager I want it to save the file locally with.

How do I get chrome to save the link using a pcmanfm dialogue box and not the one shown in the linked image, which is what currently pops up.

ps Here is what have achieved so far ..

** Fixed: chrome was opening downloaded file location with nautilus **

What I did to resolve that problem and open instead with pcmanfm
sudo mv /usr/bin/thunar /usr/bin/thunar-old
sudo mv /usr/bin/nautilus /usr/bin/nautilus-old

I then went to "open in folder" from the downloaded files shown on the bottom bar in chrome, then when the browser complained that there was nothing to open a file with, it also offered me a re-association dialogue box from which I chose pcmanfm and the problem was fixed.

Got the tips for this from this thread which was very helpful
https://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=13620

Last edited by kes (2022-11-30 11:15:27)

rbh · 2022-11-30 12:56:51

kes wrote:

Can anyone tell me what the application opening the shown "save as" dialogue is?
I'm fairly sure it is not pcmanfm which is the file manager I want it to save the file locally with.

It should be your defaul filemanager... But, I cant se any difference between saving file from browser, with thunar, pcmanfm, nautilus or spacefm as default filemanager...

If you in terminal run command "bl-alternatives list", you will get listed which filemanager is your default.

If you want to choose other filemanager as default, run command "sudo galternatives" in terminal.
In left panel mark "bl-filemanager" and in right window choose your preferred filemanager.

How do I get chrome to save the link using a pcmanfm dialogue box and not the one shown in the linked image, which is what currently pops up.

What makes you so sure it aint pcmanfm in the picture...?

What I did to resolve that problem and open instead with pcmanfm
sudo mv /usr/bin/thunar /usr/bin/thunar-old
sudo mv /usr/bin/nautilus /usr/bin/nautilus-old

If you have programs installed you do not want to use, it is better to uninstall them than to cripple your system...

kes · 2022-12-01 09:07:58

I thought this was a systems agnostic issue and so didn't mention that I moved to Arch sometime back.

I don't have access, in Arch software stores, that I can find, to
bl-alternatives, or
galternatives
Arch does not use .deb packages.
Neither the pacman repository (Arch software store online) or the AUR (community Arch software store) has these that I can see after a fairly extensive search.

Package galternatives seems to be known as alternatives (no g). It is in the AUR but the server hosting it seems to be down.

I don't think the "save as" dialogue I see is pcmanfm because it does not show my structured bookmarks, which is what I am after and which makes life easy. Though it could be.

It will probably have to be done another way that does not use bl-alternatives or galternatives using ideas similar to those shown here https://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=13620

Last edited by kes (2022-12-01 09:18:00)

johnraff · 2022-12-01 10:03:07

Galternatives is a GUI for the Debian alternatives system, so will not be available on Arch.
bl-alternatives is a command provided by bunsen-configs but most of the BunsenLabs packages will be useless on Arch.

kes · 2022-12-01 11:50:01

johnraff wrote:

Galternatives is a GUI for the Debian alternatives system, so will not be available on Arch.
bl-alternatives is a command provided by bunsen-configs but most of the BunsenLabs packages will be useless on Arch.

I know

It's going to need to be done on the command line using command line equivalents

I don't know what they are though

Last edited by kes (2022-12-01 11:50:15)

el_koraco · 2022-12-01 12:35:23

kes wrote:

I don't know what they are though

You will want to look at xdg-mime: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_MIME_Applications
I can't test this out on Arch, but look at machinebacon's posts in the #! forum.

johnraff · 2022-12-02 00:38:34

( The Crunchbang forum is still online, and the search function works: https://crunchbang.org/forums/index.php )

#1 2022-11-30 10:30:05

save file from web page using pcmanfm dialogue box not nautilus

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