Fedora 17, "Open containing folder", opens in dolphin, and not konqueror
In KDE, How do I specify which file browser Firefox uses when you select "Open Containing Folder" Fedora 17?
This is not a trivial problem, Firefox in Fedora (mine is 14.0.1) seems to hard code the file manager to use. Firefox is surprisingly stubborn to use the file manager IT wants, not the one you want.
The problem is that Firefox is a GNOME application, and is designed to run in GNOME, so when you run it in a KDE environment, it has trouble picking a file manager. I'm looking for work arounds.
My firefox insists on Dolphin, I'll have none of it, I want it to use konqueror
Screenshot:
Solution 1:
There are two ways to fix this problem:
Option 1. Create a soft link from the dolphin binary to have it run konqueror:
cd /usr/bin
mv dolphin dolphin.bak
ln -s dolphin konqueror
Which is a disgusting hack. So Firefox goes out and thinks it's running dolphin by executing /usr/bin/dolphin, but we've tricked it into running Konqueror. Just keep in mind that a upgrade of dolphin will probably overwrite the /usr/bin/dolphin, so you'll have to re soft link it to konqueror in that event.
Option 2, try to trick firefox into asking for help with the file manager
(UPDATE -> This Option 2 only works temporally, until you restart, Firefox will switch to the file manager IT wants to use WITHOUT your consent after a restart).
In Fedora 17, Firefox might ask the user for help in picking a file manager if you yank the rug out from under it and delete the file manager it is using. In my case, Firefox was using Dolphin, so I removed it:
In a Terminal:
su
<enter password>
yum remove dolphin
Which I found out also removed terminal, konqueror and many other apps! Which made me slap my forhead, however, next time I tried to open containing folder, Firefox then presented me with this:
THEN, I had to reinstall konqueror with this:
yum install konqueror
which was pretty quick. I selected it in /usr/bin/konqueror. And we are good to go, Open Containing Folder uses Konqueror.