Krusader does not launch my default browser - how to fix?

[Tom Cloyd]

First, this should be easy. It's not. I've been over the program settings 3 times, trying to see my blind spot. I've prowled the main menu. I searched on Google several ways. I'm still missing the key information I need.

QUESTION 1: When I click on an html file in Krusader, it launches Firefox. My system default browser (running Linux Mint 17.2) is Vivaldi, and that's the browser I want launched. How can I fix this?

QUESTION 2: The right-click menu (result of R-click on a file in Krusader) should be easy to reorder. It should be obvious how to do it. It most certainly is not - not to me. 

Frankly, trying to locate things in the settings window is and has always been a rather awful experience. Typically, I either can't find what I'm looking for, or the settings are baffling. And I've been using Krusader a long time - obviously I like it. I just dread having to change something about it.

It seems to me that there is a more or less standard language for talking about these things. But it's not much use with Krusader. "default applications" "right click menu" - terms like these which we all know just aren't useful in configuring Krusader. They should be, don't you think?

I don't know if this feedback is useful or not. I'm trying to make it so. Best I can do.

I hope someone can help with my questions. Thanks, in advance....

Tom

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Tom Cloyd, MS MA LMHC (WA)
Psychotherapist (psychological trauma, dissociative disorders)
Spokane, Washington, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332
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[Yuri Chornoivan]

2017-01-17 20:58 GMT+02:00 Tom Cloyd <tomclo...@gmail.com>:

First, this should be easy. It's not. I've been over the program settings 3 times, trying to see my blind spot. I've prowled the main menu. I searched on Google several ways. I'm still missing the key information I need.

QUESTION 1: When I click on an html file in Krusader, it launches Firefox. My system default browser (running Linux Mint 17.2) is Vivaldi, and that's the browser I want launched. How can I fix this?

QUESTION 2: The right-click menu (result of R-click on a file in Krusader) should be easy to reorder. It should be obvious how to do it. It most certainly is not - not to me. 

Frankly, trying to locate things in the settings window is and has always been a rather awful experience. Typically, I either can't find what I'm looking for, or the settings are baffling. And I've been using Krusader a long time - obviously I like it. I just dread having to change something about it.

It seems to me that there is a more or less standard language for talking about these things. But it's not much use with Krusader. "default applications" "right click menu" - terms like these which we all know just aren't useful in configuring Krusader. They should be, don't you think?

I don't know if this feedback is useful or not. I'm trying to make it so. Best I can do.

I hope someone can help with my questions. Thanks, in advance....

Tom

Hi,

 

Q1: Select an HTML file on the active panel, press Alt+Enter, click on the wrench icon, replace Firefox with Vivaldi.

More details:

https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management#Change_a_File_Association_on-the-fly

Another way is to use some file association tool for your desktop environment. Example::: in KDE, press Alt+F2, type "associations", choose "File Associations", type "html", choose "text/html", place Vivaldi at the top.

More on this:

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/filetypes/index.html

Q2: KDE 4 era tutorials:

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=10667 

https://userbase.kde.org/Adding_an_entry_to_the_Create_New_menu

".kde4" should be replaced with ".local" for KF5.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Yuri

[Tom Cloyd]

Thanks for the very quick response, Yuri. Much appreciated.

About Q1: for anyone else reading this, the clickpath to the solution is R-click (on some file) > Properties > General > File type options 

Thanks again....

t.

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Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of 

what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And 

however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed 

at. It matters that you don't just give up. ~ Steven Hawking

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tom Cloyd, MS MA LMHC (WA)
Psychotherapist (psychological trauma, dissociative disorders)
Spokane, Washington, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332
<< t...@tomcloyd.com >> (email)
<< TomCloyd.com >> (website)
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